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Editorial
. 2025 Sep 25.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09861-4. Online ahead of print.

Bridging the Discharge Quality Gap by Focusing on the Fundamental Five

Matthew Sakumoto  1 , Michelle Knees  2 , Marisha Burden  2
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Editorial

Bridging the Discharge Quality Gap by Focusing on the Fundamental Five

Matthew Sakumoto et al. J Gen Intern Med. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflict of Interest: Dr. Burden reports funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, University of Colorado Innovations digiSPARK award, Med-IQ, and the American Medical Association not related to this work. Dr. Burden contributed to the development of GrittyWork, a digital workforce application, and a registered trademark of the University of Colorado not related to this work. Dr. Knees reports funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality not related to this work. Dr. Sakumoto reports personal fees or funding from the following companies Clearstep Health, Carbon Health, Matter Health, Nabla Technologies, not related to this work. The authors utilized the ChatGPT language model developed by OpenAI for editing of original author content to improve readability.

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