title: Does improving handoffs reduce medical error rates?
authors.affiliation: Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut2Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Leora I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Horwitz
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010343:Patient Admission; D062209:Patient Handoff / Q000592:standards*