Background: Inter-hospital transfer (IHT) care is complex and suffers from inefficiencies in information and task organization, which can contribute to high cognitive load for clinicians.[1-4] Cognitive overload can lead to medical errors and clinician stress.[5-8] Our study identifies specific areas of high cognitive load experienced by hospital medicine physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) who [...]

Background: Interhospital transfer (IHT) is a pathway by which many patients may receive procedures or specialty care not available at their local hospital. While IHTs present the opportunity for resource sharing between hospitals for the purpose of improved patient outcomes, the discontinuity of care and the acuity of the patients may adversely affect other quality [...]

Background: Inter-hospital transfer (IHT), defined as the transfer of patients between acute care facilities, is a common practice. Despite assumptions that IHT is done to provide patients with necessary specialized care, the factors which drive patient transfer are highly variable in ways that are not fully explained by differences in patients or hospitals. As such, [...]