Table 2.

Most important threats to safe patient transitions from hospital to primary care, ranked by mean rating and percentage consensus of threat being considered ‘very important’ following analysis of round 3, round 2 results also displayed

Final rank	Mean rating at round 3	Threat	Round 3			Round 2
			Practices rating problem ‘very important’,%	Median rating	IQR of median rating	Practices rating problem ‘very important’,%	Median rating	IQR of median rating
1	8.43	Poor quality of handover instructions from secondary to primary care	100.00	8.5	1	97.22	9.0	1
2	8.43	Patients discharged before arrangements for care in place at home or in the community	93.33	9.0	1	88.89	9.0	2
3	8.40	Unsafe provision or availability of medication following patient discharge	93.33	9.0	1	86.11	9.0	1
4	8.23	Unreasonable handover of workload from secondary to primary care	93.33	8.5	1	91.67	9.0	1
5	8.17	Problems in sending and receiving discharge paperwork	93.33	8.0	1	91.67	9.0	1
6	7.83	Key handover instructions not acted on by primary care	86.67	8.0	2	83.33	8.0	2
7	7.80	Poor information given to patients, relatives, or carers on discharge from hospital	86.67	8.0	1	88.89	8.0	2
8	7.80	Unsafe prescribing practices during a patient’s transition from hospital to home	83.33	8.0	2	77.78	8.0	2
9	7.23	Poor engagement with primary care services in patient discharge planning	66.67	9.0	3	69.44	7.0	2

IQR = interquartile range.