Clinical information transfer and medication reconciliation in patients transferred from the pediatric intensive care unit.

Mary Jo C Grant; Gitte Y Larsen

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Clinical information transfer and medication reconciliation in patients transferred from the pediatric intensive care unit.

June 13, 2011

Grant MJC, Larsen GY. J Patient Saf. 2008;3(4).

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This study of nursing handoffs found frequent errors in communication of clinical information and medication reconciliation when patients were transferred from the pediatric intensive care unit to the general ward.

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