ED Provider Note

An "ED Provider Note" is a like a discharge summary in that it synopsizes a patient encounter. It is required for all emergency encounters that do not result in admission or death. Admitted patients will have a discharge summary prepared by the discharging attending at the end of an inpatient encounter. Patients dying within the emergency department before admission should deceased discharge summary prepared by the ED attending at the time of death.

Resources

• • Norms: Documentation (Prescribers)

  • Manual: Problem Oriented Charting