Abstract
Providing patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital with concise, easy-to-read discharge instructions is an important component of delivering high quality nursing care. The Clinical Workstation Project at Johns Hopkins has chosen to automate the existing pre-printed “Discharge Instructions for Health Management” form developed at Johns Hopkins in order to deliver a more complete and more attractive set of discharge instructions for patients. The application under development makes these instructions easily accessible and provides a less time consuming way of creating and delivering customized discharge instructions to patients. This application will present a menu-driven, multi-windowed environment that will run on high performance, diskless workstations. The prototype application consist of a series of four different windows used for data collection and a final discharge instructions report which will be printed out on a laser printer. The capability of selecting information from pop-up menus and also of obtaining pre-existing clinical information gathered from other applications will minimize the effort needed to produce quality discharge instructions.
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