Consequences of Inadequate Sign-out for Patient Care
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- 8 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 168 (16) , 1755-1760
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.168.16.1755
Abstract
Transfers of responsibility for patient care are common in academic hospitals and have increased in frequency following work-hour restrictions.1 Yet the processes that accompany shift changes, such as sign-out of clinical information among health care providers, are rarely standardized and often haphazardly managed.1,2 Most resident physicians receive little training in sign-out skills, are poorly supervised when conducting sign-outs, and rely on low-tech forms of communication.1,2Keywords
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