The unappreciated challenges of between-unit handoffs: Negotiating and coordinating across boundaries

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-160

  Hilligoss, Brian ^a   Cohen, Michael D ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL HANDOVER; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEGOTIATING; PATIENT TRANSFER;

EID: 84872598892     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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