Assigning a team-based pager for on-call physicians reduces paging errors in a large academic hospital.

Lisa Shieh; Jeffrey Chi; Carol Kulik; Arash Momeni; Andrew Shelton; Cynthia DePorte; Joseph Hopkins

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Assigning a team-based pager for on-call physicians reduces paging errors in a large academic hospital.

February 12, 2014

Shieh L, Chi J, Kulik C, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014;40(2):77-82.

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This study reports on the implementation of a standardized team-based paging system at an academic medical center, which helped nurses identify the correct physician for patient-related communications.

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