A visit between a provider and patient is not always adequate for sharing information. A clinical summary can augment the visit and enhance recall of some of the information that patients receive. Select the text on the left for more facts on clinical summaries.
Patients forget between 40% and 80% of medical information provided by health care providers immediately after their visits.
According to medical research, half of remembered medical information is remembered incorrectly, and providers and patients overestimate patient understanding of medical information.
Clinical summaries help increase patients’ recall and comprehension by providing them with relevant and actionable health information to refer to after their visit.
Clinical summaries improve patients’ quality of care and offer a way for patients and their families to stay informed and engaged.
Meaningful Use (MU) advocates strongly for clinical summaries and requires their use in a number of MU objectives.