Admission handoff communications: clinician's shared understanding of patient severity of illness and problems.

Melissa Brannen; Kenzie A Cameron; Mark D. Adler; Denise Goodman; Jane L. Holl

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Admission handoff communications: clinician's shared understanding of patient severity of illness and problems.

December 7, 2009

Brannen M, Cameron KA, Adler MD, et al. J Patient Saf. 2009;5(4).

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Direct observation of signouts revealed that residents giving and receiving signout generally agreed on a patient's overall severity of illness, but did not agree on prioritization of specific acute problems.

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