Meeting
Abstract Number: 351
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Inpatient service handoffs have been recognized as a vulnerable time during a patients’ hospitalization. Prior studies have suggested the need for more systematic, team-based, and patient-centered handoff models. We hypothesized that performing the service handoff at the patients’ bedside may more efficiently transfer patient information between physicians, while further integrating the patient into their […]