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Letters |4 October 2005

Fumbled Handoffs

Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH

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  • From Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02120.

    Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed.

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Like Dr. Rastegar, I too am a primary care physician and agree that this role is essential in ensuring continuity and quality of care. However, even if a primary care physician had been the only provider involved in the case I discussed in my article, the test result may not have been seen, especially since many primary care physicians are dissatisfied with their systems for tracking test results (1). If the patient's own primary care physician had cared for him in the hospital, perhaps that physician would have remembered the previous outpatient evaluation. However, having systems to...
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Gandhi TK. Fumbled Handoffs. Ann Intern Med. 2005;143:542–543. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-7-200510040-00016

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2005;143(7):542-543.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-7-200510040-00016

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