Academic year-end transfers of outpatients from outgoing to incoming residents: An unaddressed patient safety issue

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1327-1329

  Young, John Q ^a   Wachter, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ERROR; NOTE; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 70349327799     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1399     Document Type: Note

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