Frequency and clinical importance of pages sent to the wrong physician.
Wong BM, Quan S, Cheung M, et al. Frequency and clinical importance of pages sent to the wrong physician. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(11):1072-3. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2009.117.
Communication in the hospital setting is critical to safe patient care. This study discovered that 14% of text pages were sent to the wrong physician, with nearly 50% of them requiring emergent or urgent attention.