Developing and testing a tool to measure nurse/physician communication in the intensive care unit.

Alexander R. Carbo; Anjala V Tess; Christopher L. Roy; Saul N. Weingart

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Developing and testing a tool to measure nurse/physician communication in the intensive care unit.

June 1, 2011

Carbo AR, Tess AV, Roy CL, et al. J Patient Saf. 2011;7(2).

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A novel survey for assessing nurse–physician communication revealed that units with lower perceived safety culture also appeared to have suboptimal interdisciplinary communication.

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