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Electronic Patient

Discharge Plan (ePDP)

Brief Tutorial For Providers

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What?• Electronic Patient Discharge Plan (ePDP) is required

for patients discharged or transferred from SFGH to another facility (including inpatient psychiatry, 4A)

• If you include the Discharge Summary no additional note will be required after this is complete.

• Inter-service transfer summaries (e.g. MICU to medicine, medicine to surgery) should continue to be dictated or entered directly in LCR Reports/Notes section.

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Why?• The new version is meant to provide improved

continuity of care between inpatient and outpatient care, improve the safety and quality of discharges at SFGH, and more clearly communicate the hospital course with other physicians.

• It is required to improve compliance with ACA and Joint Commission guidelines.

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Who?• All patients discharged from a med/surg unit.• This includes patients who are occasionally

discharged from 5E/5R/4E and all patients discharged from 4B step-down and 5D telemetry.

• Med/surg and pediatric patients discharged from 6A.

• Outpatient surgery/PACU, ER, L&D, 6C/6H will not participate in this pathway.

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Where?• LCR will have a new tab on the left column of the

patient’s record titled Discharge Process.

• Under this tab, select the ePDP option to complete the PDP for the patient.

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When?• ePDP can be started at any time during the

patient’s hospital course (you are encouraged to start early!) and can be modified by any provider.

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How?• The primary provider will complete the required

sections and any other applicable sections.• You may work on the ePDP at any point during the

hospitalization, using the Save button to save work as you go.

• When the provider is finished with PDP, he/she will use the MD Finalize button to submit and electronically sign the document.

• The ePDP and discharge instructions will ultimately be scanned and uploaded to the LCR in Reports/Notes.

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Example of the new ePDP pathway.

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These are required

sections for all patients.

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These 3 tabs will serve as the discharge summary. If completed

here no additional summary needs to be written!

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Click this box if you completed (or will

complete) a separate discharge

summary instead.

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No further information can be added to these tabs once the option is

marked as these are the discharge summary

fields.

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Clearer communication with outpatient providers is one of the benefits of the ePDP.

If PCP is within DPH/UCSF system, an email will be sent to the PCP advising him/her to review discharge documents.

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Click the SAVE button located at

the bottom of each tab at any point while editing the

ePDP to save your work. You can then continue working on the document

or return at a later time.

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After clicking the Save button, you

will be required to enter your

password to save your work.

You or any other provider may then continue working

on the saved version at any point in time.

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You can edit any section of the ePDP by clicking on the

field and then hitting modify below or go directly to the relevant tab above.

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To FINALIZE the ePDP go to the

Summary tab and click Finalize

below.

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IMPORTANT: Your signature on the FINAL

ePDP indicates that you are accountable for the entire content (even if multiple

providers contributed to the document over time).

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To make edits to an already finalized ePDP,

go to Enter/Update PDP. Click Continue to make

changes to the document.

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The finalized ePDP is viewable from the

Reports/Notes section as “ePDP & Discharge

Summary.” Future revisions to the ePDP will update the corresponding document.