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BACKGROUND:In an effort to prevent medical errors, it has been recommended that all healthcare organizations implement a standardized approach to communicating patient information during transitions of care between providers. Most research on these transitions has been conducted in the inpatient setting, with relatively few studies conducted in the outpatient setting. OBJECTIVES:To develop a structured transfer of care program in an academic outpatient continuity practice and evaluate whether this program improved patient safety as measured by the documented completion of patient care tasks at 3 months post-transition. DESIGN:Graduating residents and the corresponding incoming interns inheriting their continuity patient panels were randomized to the pilot structured transfer group or the standard transfer group. The structured transfer group residents were asked to complete written and verbal sign-outs with their interns; the standard transfer group residents continued the current standard of care. PARTICIPANTS:Thirty-two resident-intern pairs in an academic internal medicine residency program in New York City. MAIN MEASURES:Three months after the transition, study investigators evaluated whether patient care tasks assigned by the graduating residents had been successfully completed by the interns in both groups. In addition, follow-up appointments, continuity of care and house officer satisfaction with the sign-out process were evaluated. KEY RESULTS:Among patients seen during the first 3 months, the clinical care tasks were more likely to be completed by interns in the structured group (73 %, n = 49) versus the standard group (46 %, n = 28) (adjusted OR 3.21; 95 % CI 1.55-6.62; p = 0.002). This was further enhanced if the intern who saw the patient was also the assigned primary care provider (adjusted OR 4.26; 95 % CI 1.7-10.63; p = 0.002). CONCLUSIONS:A structured outpatient sign-out improved the odds of follow-up of important clinical care tasks after the year-end resident clinic transition. Further efforts should be made to improve residents' competency with regard to sign-outs in the ambulatory setting.
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J Gen Intern Medjournal_title
Journal of general internal medicineauthors
Garment AR,Lee WW,Harris C,Phillips-Caesar Edoi
10.1007/s11606-012-2206-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-01-01 00:00:00pages
114-20issue
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0884-8734issn
1525-1497journal_volume
28pub_type
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