Meeting
Abstract Number: 331
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Failures in communication among healthcare personnel are known threats to patient safety. Communication is particularly vulnerable to error when patient care responsibility is transferred from one provider to another (i.e., handoff). In this study we implemented a web-based handoff tool and provider training, and evaluated the impact on preventable adverse events (AEs). Methods: We […]