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The objectives of this study were to quantify the timeliness of discharge summary completion and to investigate the relationship between delayed completion of discharge summary and 30-day postdischarge outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>As part of a cohort study conducted in France, we analyzed a sample of 1004 patients (median age, 78\u2009years) discharged alive after a hospitalization for pneumonia. The primary outcome was defined as a composite adverse event outcome of death or unplanned readmission within 30\u2009days of discharge. We performed inverse probability of treatment weighting analysis based on propensity score to estimate odds ratios (ORs) of 30-day postdischarge adverse events for patients for whom a discharge summary was not completed by the day of discharge.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A summary was completed on the day of discharge for 305 patients [30%, 95% confidence interval (CI), 28\u201333]. These patients were older, had more severe pneumonia on admission, and were more likely to exhibit impaired functional independence, receive \u22655 concomitant medications, necessitate advanced care, and be clinically unstable at discharge. After inverse probability weighting, the 30-day estimates of postdischarge adverse events were 12% and 14% (OR, 1.12; 95% CI, 0.72\u20131.75), with unplanned readmission rates of 9.6% and 10% (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 0.65\u20131.84) and all-cause mortality rates of 6.9% and 4.3% (OR, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.31\u20131.21) for patients with and without a summary completed on the day of discharge, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Although this study found no association between delayed completion of discharge summaries and postdischarge adverse events, the availability of a discharge summary in the early follow-up period may enhance other aspects of the quality of care among survivors of hospitalization for pneumonia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/intqhc\/mzag116","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,20]],"date-time":"2026-08-20T11:50:51Z","timestamp":1787226651000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Timeliness of discharge summary and postdischarge adverse events among patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"38","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-1615-4200","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anne","family":"Danjou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ. 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