Patients' lives are being put at risk by poor communication from health care professionals in hospitals worldwide, according ...

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On average, about 1 in every 20 patients is exposed to preventable harm in health care, researchers said in background notes ... a quarter of cases where patient safety was threatened.

And the findings are alarming. We discovered that poor communication was the sole cause of patient-safety incidents in over one in ten cases and contributed to causing incidents in one in four cases.