New uses of old technology: Can nurse-pagers improve communication between resident-physicians and nurses

Alphanumeric paging is underutilized, despite being the standard mode of communication between physicians and nurses at many hospitals across the United States. We hypothesized that an educational program designed to teach optimal alphanumeric paging behavior in conjunction with providing nurses with alphanumeric pagers would improve the quality and efficiency of nurse pages. We implemented an educational program to teach nurses about optimal...