Patient safety in after-hours telephone medicine.

Shersten Killip; Carol L Ireson; Margaret M Love; Steven T Fleming; Whitney Katirai; Katherine Sandford

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Patient safety in after-hours telephone medicine.

June 20, 2007

Killip S, Ireson CL, Love MM, et al. Fam Med. 2007;39(6):404-9.

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The investigators talked with patients who had used a family medicine after-hours answering service and found that these communications had the potential for adverse events.

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