Undivided attention improves postoperative anesthesia handover recall

Advances in Medical Education and Practice

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 215-220

  Arenas, Alejandro ^a   Tabaac, Burton J ^a   Fastovets, Galina ^b   Patil, Vinod ^c  

^a American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine   (Netherlands Antilles)

^b BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Continuous quality improvement; Healthcare quality improvement; Patient care; Safety culture; Undivided attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970935034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11797258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/AMEP.S65361     Document Type: Article

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