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Another relevant bit of info from hospital accidents: hand-offs between shifts are known to increase the risk of a mistake in care and are part of the reason nu
by dgunay 3y ago
Another relevant bit of info from hospital accidents: hand-offs between shifts are known to increase the risk of a mistake in care and are part of the reason nurses and doctors work such long hours.
- elteto 3y agoI avoid, if possible of course, going to the hospital right before a shift change for this very reason.
- noSyncCloud 3y agoI'm not questioning your logic here, but how do you keep intimate knowledge of the seasonal vagaries of shift changes at every department of your local hospital?
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYou can probably make a good guess, but at this point I wouldn't be surprised to find websites or Facebook groups dedicated to tracking this information for hospitals in any given area.
- elteto 3y agoIf you’ve been to that hospital you can easily take note. And most places have a shift change between 5-7am. This one is almost universal, as far as I have observed, even in different countries.
- pbj1968 3y agoBecause they’re more or less universal.