High-reliability and the I-PASS communication tool.

Kimberly Clements

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High-reliability and the I-PASS communication tool.

April 5, 2017

Clements K. Nursing Management (Springhouse). 2017;48(3).

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High reliability has yet to be achieved in health care organizations. This magazine article described how a 13-hospital health system used handoff standardization tools such as I-PASS to enhance the reliability of patient transitions.

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