
42. Your Doctor Has to Go Home. Now What?
Freakonomics, M.D.
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The Effects of End of Shift Transitions in Hospitals
Communication failures are one of the more common causes of harm to patients. There is a tremendous amount of inconsistency on the information that's shared when patient care is handed off from one person to another. So geoffrey and his colleagues came up with an intervention, a sort of tool, to reduce hand off related medical errors. And they designed a study to test its efficacy.
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