AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Mobile physician reporting of clinically significant events—a novel way to improve handoff communication and supervision of resident on call activities.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



Mobile physician reporting of clinically significant events—a novel way to improve handoff communication and supervision of resident on call activities.

Nabors C, Peterson SJ, Aronow WS, et al. J Patient Saf. 2014;10:211-217.

Engaging physicians in voluntary safety reporting has generally been challenging. In this study, internal medicine residents reported many more clinically significant events following the introduction of an easy-to-use mobile platform that combined event reporting with patient signout.

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