Assigning a team-based pager for on-call physicians reduces paging errors in a large academic hospital

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 77-82

  Shieh, Lisa ^a,b   Chi, Jeffrey ^a,b   Kulik, Carol ^b   Momeni, Arash ^b   Shelton, Andrew ^a   DePorte, Cynthia ^b   Hopkins, Joseph ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; COMMUNICATION; NURSES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893103744     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(14)40009-6     Document Type: Article

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