Intensive Care Units, Communication Between Nurses and Physicians, and Patients’ Outcomes
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by AACN Publishing in American Journal of Critical Care
- Vol. 18 (1), 21-30
- https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2009353
Abstract
Background Various factors in hospitals can adversely affect patients’ outcomes, including faulty communication between nurses and physicians. Whether specific communication elements (timeliness, accuracy, openness, understanding) can influence adverse outcomes is unknown.Keywords
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