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Who should write admission orders?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Michael Shuster*
Affiliation:
Mineral Springs Hospital, Banff, Alta

Summary:

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The rural hospital environment differs from the urban hospital environment in that there are fewer physicians available to share the workload and to help out in an emergency. When a rural physician on call for emergency writes admission orders rather than disturb the patient’s family physician, that rural physician accepts full responsibility for the patient until the patient’s physician actually examines the patient and assumes care.

Type
Commentary • Commentaire
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 1999

References

1.Socransky, S.Admission orders [letter]. CJEM 1999;1(1):19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar