What do providers say about the Checklist?
• Providers who used the Checklist feel that it is a good reminder of what needs to be done to ensure continuity of care, identifies barriers to continuity of care that otherwise might be overlooked, encourages multidisciplinary communication, and ensures transfer of valuable information to patients. Are there challenges to using the Checklist? • Time and “buy in” are the greatest challenges. If you use the Checklist you will need to adapt it to your unit (e.g., determine who will complete it, with which patients, where the Checklist will be placed, at what point in time it will be completed). What benefits have been found using the Checklist? • When providers used the Checklist with Family Medicine patients, the Checklist was associated with improved patient perceptions of a number of aspects of care including: 1) being informed of ongoing treatment that may be required after discharge; 2) sharing of necessary information with informal caregivers; 3) the perception that different heal
