Background Operating room (OR)-to-ICU handoffs require coordinated communication
between clinicians with different professional backgrounds. However, individual studies …

Background Handovers of post-anesthesia patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) are often
unstructured and performed under time pressure. Hence, they bear a high risk of poor …

Patient care handoffs are critical to ensuring continuity of care and patient safety. Current
definitions of handoffs focus on information, but preventing errors and improving quality …

BACKGROUND: Failures of communication are a major contributor to perioperative adverse
events. Transitions of care may be particularly vulnerable. We sought to improve …