Interprofessional Communication SBAR Module - jeffline

Ambulatory chronic disease patients sufferpreventable medical errorsPatient Safety Monitor Alert, July 29, 2009Journal on Quality and Patient Safety highlighted astudy at UCSF that identified the gaps in thehealthcare system to which ambulatory patients withchronic disease are exposed. They found that unlikein hospital settings in which patients are managedby a team of caregivers during their stay, ambulatorypatients are often managed by many differentcaregivers with a lack of defined protocols.Additionally, the researchers found that medicalerrors sometimes occurred because of the lack ofcommunication among ambulatory patients'health providers, as well as patients being unawareof their own medication regimens.