Discharge Summary Skill

The discharge summary is the handoff that the next clinician (and the patient) actually relies on: why they were admitted, what happened, what changed, and what to do next. This skill structures the stay into a complete, scannable summary so nothing critical — a new medication, a pending result, a follow-up — falls through the gap.

Clinical-safety note: this is a documentation-formatting aid, not medical advice. It organises information a qualified clinician provides; the treating clinician must review and verify every detail (especially the medication list and follow-up) before it is finalised. Do not invent diagnoses, medications, doses, or results.

Working from a brief

Given the admission notes and course, produce the full summary anyway — organise what's provided into every standard section. Where a section's detail wasn't given, mark it clearly (e.g. "Pending results: none reported") rather than inventing it. Never fabricate medications, doses, or diagnoses.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided (else mark as not documented):

• Admission — reason for admission, date, and presenting problem.
• Hospital course — what happened during the stay: diagnoses, key events, procedures, consults, results.
• Discharge medications — the reconciled med list (new, changed, stopped, continued).
• Discharge status & disposition — condition at discharge and where they're going (home, facility).
• Follow-up — appointments, pending results, and return/escalation precautions.

Output Format

Discharge Summary

• Patient & dates — identifiers as provided; admission and discharge dates.
• Admission diagnosis / reason for admission.
• Discharge diagnoses — principal and secondary.
• Hospital course — a concise narrative of the stay: presentation → workup → treatment → response, by problem.
• Procedures / significant events — with dates.