Each facility should implement a standardized approach to hand-off communication,
including an opportunity to ask questions. Although hand-off communication may be verbal …

BY NOW, EVERYONE should be familiar with The Joint Commission's National Safety
Goals. The purpose of each goal is to promote a specific improvement in patient safety. It is …

Background: Anesthesia care providers frequently exchange care of patients among one
another. This daily process of information exchange could be a potential source for adverse …

Effective perioperative hand-off communication is essential for patient safety. The purpose of
this quality improvement project was to demonstrate how a structured hand-off tool and …

Abstract Study Objective To evaluate a new perioperative handoff protocol in the adult
perianesthesia care units (PACUs). Design Prospective, unblinded cross-sectional study …

Purpose The goal of this project was to improve the process of transferring patient
information between certified registered nurse anesthetists and postanesthesia care unit …

In the recent patient safety literature, there is an increasing agreement that effective patient
handover is critical to patient safety by ensuring appropriate coordination among health-care …

Patient safety may be at risk when details are omitted during anesthesia handoff. The Written
Handoff Anesthesia Tool (WHAT), designed by the author, was implemented to improve the …

Article-at-a-Glance Background The Joint Commission has made a “standardized approach
to hand-off communications” a National Patient Safety Goal. Method An interactive 90 …

Background: Despite a growing awareness that a standardized handoff tool is critical to
providing safe and effective patient care, there are limited studies to assess the need for the …