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promoted and adopted by accreditation bodies. 5 The most common standardized …

OBJECTIVES: Perioperative handoffs are a particularly high-risk period given patients'
postprocedural physiology, their physical transport through the hospital, and the triad …

Background Information related to the problem identification: First quarter 2012, post
discharge phone call documentation was integrated to the Surgical Services electronic …

Handoffs (also referred to as “handovers”), in the most concise description, are an exchange
of responsibility for one or more patients from one provider to another. Handoffs are …

handoffs. Simply put, handoffs are a risky business. The protocols involved in this area have
been identified as one of the weakest links in patient management. The often-cited Institute …

Purpose The purpose of this integrative review was to synthesize and critique the literature
related to protocols, checklists, and tools designed to facilitate information transfers, that is …

Background Handovers in patient care are increasingly common occurrences in medicine
and are highly susceptible to communication failures. Intraoperative anaesthesiology …

PURPOSE: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
defines a “handoff” as a contemporaneous, interactive process of passing patient-specific …

Background Handoffs are a complex procedure whose success relies on mutual discussion
rather than simple information transfer. Particularly among trainees, handoffs present major …

The Joint Commission's 2006 National Patient Safety Goal requiring “a standardized
approach” for handovers is now scored as a standard. 5 Specific to the OR-PACU transition …