MedCity News February 23, 2022
Even with EHRs, notes are still written down on paper and some critical communication never happens between clinicians. To reduce medical errors, we need to keep improving our systems for collaboration.
Anyone who has stayed at a hospital can relate to this common experience. It’s 7 a.m. on the fourth day of your hospital admission, and you hear the word you’ve been waiting for: “discharge.” The intern comes and relays that you are ready to go home. However, later in the day, you’re seen by a different doctor who wants to run one more test. But mysteriously, that test never happens, so you get discharged and go home.
It turns out that there was a miscommunication between the team and...
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