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Association of a Web-Based Handoff Tool With Rates of Medical Errors

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: period 1 rate, 2.47; 95% CI, 1.00-6.07;period 2 and 3 rate, 0.95; 95% CI, 0.56-1.61;P < .001),errors from end-of-shift (but not end-of-rotation) handoffs (period 1 rate, 6.93; 95% CI, 5.36-8.76;period 2 and 3 rate, 3.59; 95% CI, 2.55-4.87;P = .001),and errors on both medical (period 1 rate, 3.18; 95% CI, 2.45-4.05;period 2 and 3 rate,

Source: JAMA Internal Medicine

DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.4258

Authors: Stephanie K. Mueller, Catherine Yoon, Jeffrey L. Schnipper

Institutions: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Hospital Admissions and Outcomes

Subfield: Emergency Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze