Associations between early handoffs, length of stay and complications in internal medicine wards: A retrospective study.

CONCLUSIONS: Among patients admitted in our general internal medicine division, early handoffs were associated with significantly higher length of stay and major complication rate, but not in patients admitted during week-ends. PMID: 31311699 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tags: Eur J Intern Med Source Type: research