Teaching Video and Workshop Exercises: "Putting the Patient First: Engineering Patient-Oriented Clinic Handoffs (EPOCH)"

• Main Authors: Amber Pincavage (Author), Wei Wei Lee (Author), Shana Ratner (Author), Megan Prochaska (Author), Andrew Davis (Author), Mark Saathoff (Author), Vineet Arora (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Association of American Medical Colleges, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Clinic handoffs occur when residents graduate and patients are transitioned to another primary care physician. Numerous patients are at risk for poor outcomes and face many barriers to effective care during clinic handoffs(1-5). Patients are lost to follow-up, have missed test results, miss...