Almost half (47%; n = 14) of the participants described having some awareness of a handover process prior to being invited to take part in the study, with 8 (27%) having experienced this through the ...

Reviewed by Drex DeFord, Independent Consultant; previously, CEO at Next Wave Connect; CIO at Steward Healthcare (Boston); CIO/Senior VP at Seattle Children's; Chairman, CHIME Board of Trustees ...

A lack of consistency among postoperative patient handovers can lead to poor clinical outcomes, according to research published in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. Standardize the process ...

Patient handover—the structured transfer of responsibility and clinical information between healthcare professionals—constitutes a cornerstone of safe, continuous care across settings. It spans ...

Patient handovers at Furness General Hospital appear to be getting slower, with average handover times sat above the North West Ambulance ...

In clinical handoffs, biased language can hinder empathy and negatively affect clinicians’ ability to recall patient health information, according to a study published Dec. 17 in JAMA. To examine the ...

Michelle Gray recalls from her years as a critical-care nurse that many patients and their families had no idea what was going on with their care. She realized that lack of information made being in ...

Breakdowns in communication can cost lives and dollars. Here's what it takes to create smooth patient handoffs. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the newsletter Briefings on ...

Mortality rates are higher among hospitalized patients who are transitioned when a physician in training is rotated to another specialty. The rotation-associated increase in mortality rate worsened ...

The participants in this study described patient-centred strategies to promote quality and safety through handover through TSA between clinicians as well as patients (and support people). This ...