Despite the central role that communication skills play in contemporary accounts of effective
health care delivery in general, and the communication of medical error specifically, there is …

With changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Common Program Requirements related to transitions in care effective July 1, 2011 …

Background Handoffs occur frequently in the medical domain and are associated with up to
80% of medical errors. Although research has progressed, handoffs largely remain …

Objectives: To improve handover communication and patient outcomes for postoperative
admissions to a multidisciplinary PICU. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting …

Emergency medicine is a communicative activity, and characteristics such as incomplete
information, time pressure, and the potentially serious consequences of errors complicate …

BACKGROUND Over the last decade, patient safety, which is defined as the prevention of
harm to patients, 1 has become a key priority for health care systems because of increased …

Study objective We describe the prevalence of vital sign communication errors during
emergency department (ED) handoffs. Our secondary objective is to evaluate the …

A growing challenge facing scholars who study group processes is textual data overload.
The immense amount of text generated by group members' interactions via email, text …

BACKGROUND Emergency department (ED) to inpatient physician handoffs are subject to
complex challenges. We assessed physicians' perceptions of the ED admission handoff …

Purpose Our aim was to explore reasons for physician variability in decisions to limit life
support in the intensive care unit (ICU) utilizing qualitative methodology. Methods Single …