Leveraging computerized sign-out to increase error reporting and addressing patient safety in graduate medical education.

Paul N. Foster; Runa Sidhu; Dhruv A. Gadhia; Michele DeMusis

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Leveraging computerized sign-out to increase error reporting and addressing patient safety in graduate medical education.

April 30, 2008

Foster PN, Sidhu R, Gadhia DA, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2008;23(4):481-4.

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An error reporting system linked to the electronic patient sign-out system significantly increased error reporting rates by internal medicine residents.

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