New study shines light on poor transfer communications

摘要

Quality improvement professionals have long known of the difficulties involved in discharge communications between hospital-based physicians and primary care physicians, butin tne ords of one observer, "This is the first time the problem has been quantified." "This" is a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (lAMA), entitled "Deficits in Communication and Information Transfer Between Hospital-Based and Primary Care Physicians."