Handovers are vital to the continuity of patient care and can influence patient outcome.
Several structures exist to facilitate handover delivery but further work is needed to …

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

Objective: Many contemporary acute care facilities lack safe and effective clinical handover
practices resulting in patient transitions that are vulnerable to discontinuities in care, medical …

Introduction Transfer of a patient's care between providers is a significant potential for
medical errors. Given the potential for patient safety breeches we sought to investigate …

Background Clinical handover plays a vital role in patient care and has been investigated in
hospital settings, but less attention has been paid to the interface between prehospital and …

Perioperative handoffs are high-risk events for miscommunications and poor care
coordination, which cause patient harm. Extensive research and several interventions have …

Purpose–The objective of this review is to address two research questions: What is evidence‐
based best practice for intra‐hospital inpatient handovers? What areas need further …

Incomplete communication is a critical source of medical error and subsequent patient harm
within the health care system. Patient handoffs in health care require the coordinated …

Errors in communication are a major source of preventable medical errors. Neurosurgical
patients frequently present to the neuro-intensive care unit (NICU) postoperatively, where …

Abstract Background Handover (or'handoff') is the exchange of information between health
professionals that accompanies the transfer of patient care. This process can result in …