Meeting
Abstract Number: 265
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Insufficient communication, particularly at transitions in patient care, is a common and accepted cause of negative outcomes. Handoffs between hospitalists and primary care physicians (PCPs) are infrequent, occurring in 3-20% of cases (2). Many institutions are using discharge summaries as automated methods of handing off the patient to the PCP, however it has been […]