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We need to talk: primary care provider communication at discharge in the era of a shared electronic medical record.

Sheu L, Fung K, Mourad M, Ranji S, Wu E. J Hosp Med. 2015 Mar 6; [Epub ahead of print].

Primary care physicians at an academic medical center continued to speak up about concerns regarding the quality of communication they received from inpatient teams even after implementation of a shared electronic medical record. They also expressed a desire for increased direct communication at discharge for complex patients and patients with detailed follow-up needs.

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