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Hand-off bundle implementation associated with decreased medical errors and preventable adverse events on an academic family medicine in-patient unit: A pre-post study.

October 30, 2019

Dewar ZE, Yurkonis T, Attia M. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019;98(40):e17459.

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Poor communication and handoffs between providers have been linked to adverse events. The implementation of a standardized hand-off bundle modeled on the I-PASS tool (incorporating illness severity, patient summary, action list, situational awareness, and synthesis by receiver) in an inpatient family medicine service resulted in a significant reduction in medical errors.

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