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Can patient safety be improved by reducing the volume of “inappropriate prescribing tasks” handed over to out-of-hours junior doctors?

BACKGROUND: First-year doctors found that during out-of-hours shifts they were being delayed and distracted from reviewing potentially sick/deteriorating patients by a high volume of prescribing tasks. This predominately consisted of oral anticoagulation prescribing and rewrites of drug charts. We h...

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Autores principales: Amis, Samuel Martin, Osicki, Tobin Henry Edgar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593428
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S153227