Audit of discharge summaries at the psychiatric hospital in Bahrain

Abstract EN

The study was conducted during the year 1999 to examine the contents of Uncharge summaries from the Psychiatric Hospital in Bahrain.

| study indicates several important areas in which completion of summaries Jjld be improved including details about prognosis, personality and information ||en to patients and relatives, ICD codes and diagnostic formulation, iie study suggested that examining discharge summaries can be a first step in ting a comprehensive audit of Psychiatric hospitals which is stated as an Important step in educating the psychiatrists of the 21st centuiy.