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Frequency and clinical importance of pages sent to the wrong physician.
Wong BM, Quan S, Cheung CM, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:1072-1073.

Communication in the hospital setting is critical to safe patient care. This study discovered that 14% of text pages were sent to the wrong physician, with nearly 50% of them requiring emergent or urgent attention.
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