A call to bridge across silos during care transitions.

Engineering a foundation for partnership to improve medication safety during care transitions.

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Evaluation of medication errors at the transition of care from an ICU to non-ICU location.

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I-PASS mentored implementation handoff curriculum: champion training materials.

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Using a potentially aggressive/violent patient huddle to improve health care safety.

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Handoffs and Signouts

Medicines-related harm in the elderly post-hospital discharge.

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Readmissions and Adverse Events After Discharge

Data omission by physician trainees on ICU rounds.

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A partially structured postoperative handoff protocol improves communication in 2 mixed surgical intensive care units: findings from the Handoffs and Transitions in Critical Care (HATRICC) prospective cohort study.

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Dissecting communication barriers in healthcare: a path to enhancing communication resiliency, reliability, and patient safety.

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In Conversation With… David Meltzer, MD, PhD

The Comprehensivist Model of Care: A Hospitalist's View

Robert Wachter, MD

Implementing bedside handoff in the emergency department: a practice improvement project.

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Community-acquired and hospital-acquired medication harm among older inpatients and impact of a state-wide medication management intervention.

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Procuring Interoperability: Achieving High-Quality, Connected, and Person-Centered Care.

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I-PASS checklist: a powerful tool for patient handoffs.

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Day of discharge does not impact hospital readmission after major cardiac surgery.

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Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care.

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Impact of the communication and patient hand-off tool SBAR on patient safety: a systematic review.

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Assessment of the safety of discharging select patients directly home from the intensive care unit: a multicenter population-based cohort study.

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