What are covering doctors told about their patients? Analysis of sign-out among internal medicine house staff

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 248-255

  Horwitz, L I ^a,b   Moin, T ^b   Krumholz, H M ^a,b   Wang, L ^c   Bradley, E H ^b  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SIGN OUT; RESIDENT; RESPONSIBILITY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 69449095523     PISSN: 14753898     EISSN: 14753901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2008.028654     Document Type: Article

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