CMW sneak peek: What are the benefits of using whiteboards to track patient discharges?
Case Management Weekly, September 16, 2009
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Imagine a communication tool in patient rooms that allows interaction between the patient, his or her family members, and all the patient’s caregivers.
This tool is the whiteboard placed at the foot of each patient’s bed, often referred to as “the ticket home” or “the ticket to discharge,” because not every patient is discharged home.
Newly implemented at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, whiteboards used in this way have proven to have many benefits.
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