Improving patient care over weekends by reducing on-call work load and better time management
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Improving patient care over weekends by reducing on-call work load and better time management
The Royal College of Physicians states that "handover, particularly of temporary 'on-call' responsibility, has been identified as a point at which errors are likely to occur."[1] Working a weekend on-call covering medical wards is often busy and stressful for all junior doctors. The high volume of routine and unplanned tasks make the situation even worse. In Nevill Hall hospital Abergavenny, we...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Quality Improvement Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2050-1315
DOI: 10.1136/bmjquality.u204560.w2109