An evaluation of information transfer through the continuum of surgical care: a feasibility study.

Kamal Nagpal; Amit Vats; Kamran Ahmed; Charles A. Vincent; Krishna Moorthy

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An evaluation of information transfer through the continuum of surgical care: a feasibility study.

August 11, 2010

Nagpal K, Vats A, Ahmed K, et al. Ann Surg. 2010;252(2):402-7.

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Communication failures are common in surgical care. This study used a novel assessment tool to evaluate information handoff during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods, and found significant problems in each phase.

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