Healthy work environments, nurse-physician communication, and patients' outcomes.

Milisa Manojlovich; Barry DeCicco

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Healthy work environments, nurse-physician communication, and patients' outcomes.

November 14, 2007

Manojlovich M, DeCicco B. Am J Crit Care. 2007;16(6):536-43.

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This study discovered that nearly half the variance in nurse–physician communication could be attributed to factors in the work environment, even if the environmental factors did not predict patient outcomes.

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