How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 30, 2018
Roughly 80% of serious medical errors (now the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer) can be traced to poor communication between care providers during patient handoffs, according to a 2012 Joint Commission report. This makes patient handoffs the most frequent and riskiest procedure in the hospital.
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