Mobile Physician Reporting of Clinically Significant Events-A Novel Way to Improve Handoff Communication and Supervision of Resident on Call Activities

摘要

Objectives Reporting of clinically significant events represents an important mechanism by which patient safety problems may be identified and corrected. However, time pressure and cumbersome report entry procedures have discouraged the full participation of physicians. To improve the process, our internal medicine training program developed an easy-to-use mobile platform that combines the reporting process with patient sign-out.