Traffic lights: putting a stop to unsafe patient transfers

"we feel that our tool could be developed for use for all intra-hospital transfers at Watford General Hospital, and could be more widely used in acute hospital trusts under similar pressures to increase patient flow, reducing the clinical risks associated with patient transfer."

Traffic lights: putting a stop to unsafe patient transfers
A Parbhoo, J Batte
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u204799.w2079

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Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers

"Improving the transfer of information about medicines across all care settings should help to reduce incidents of avoidable harm to patients, improving patient safety and contributing to a reduction in avoidable medicines related admissions and readmissions to hospital."

Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers - getting the medicines right
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
June 2012

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