Breaking News: Error-Prone Handoffs Pose Safety Risk to Patients.
SoRelle, Ruth MPH
Emergency Medicine News: February 2012 - Volume 34 - Issue 2 - pp 1,5,20
doi: 10.1097/01.EEM.0000411477.82360.54
Breaking News
"Every day in the emergency department there comes a time when the emergency physician must hand off a patient's care to another physician, whether it's one of his emergency medicine colleagues or a resident, attending, or hospitalist. How that information is communicated has a direct effect on the patient's safety and his ultimate outcome."