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discharge summary

noun

B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A letter summarising a patient's admission, treatment and follow-up needs, sent to the receiving clinician on discharge from hospital.

This discharge summary outlines Mrs Lee's inpatient stay and the arrangements made for her ongoing care.

Similar: discharge letter

Topic: OET letter-writing in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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