Need for standardized sign-out in the emergency department: a survey of emergency medicine residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program directors.

Madhumita Sinha; Jesse Shriki; Rebecca Salness; Paul A. Blackburn

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Need for standardized sign-out in the emergency department: a survey of emergency medicine residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program directors.

January 17, 2007

Sinha M, Shriki J, Salness R, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2007;14(2):192-6.

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The investigators studied sign-out processes in emergency departments. Survey responses suggested that a protocol for sign-out would help reduce medical errors.

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