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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...
Autores principales: | Amis, Samuel Martin, Osicki, Tobin Henry Edgar |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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