Getting the message: a quality improvement initiative to reduce pages sent to the wrong physician.

Brian M. Wong; Mark Cheung; Hasan Dharamshi; Sonia Dyal; Alex Kiss; Dante Morra; Sherman Quan; Khalil Sivjee; Edward Etchells

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Getting the message: a quality improvement initiative to reduce pages sent to the wrong physician.

November 23, 2011

Wong BM, Cheung M, Dharamshi H, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21(10):855-62.

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This study redesigned a hospital's paging process to reduce pages sent to the wrong physician by adopting team-based paging practices.

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