The emergency handover of critical patients is used to describe the moment when
responsibility for the care of a patient is transferred from one critical patient care healthcare …

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

Recognition that handoffs, or handovers, defined as a transfer of responsibility between
different team members, 1 are frequently associated with clinical incidents and perioperative …

Aims and objectives (a) To explore the factors affecting quality in postoperative handovers
as perceived by the different professional groups of clinicians involved.(b) To explore …

Handoffs, the transfer of responsibility from one provider to another, commonly occur in intra-
disciplinary silos that exclude patients. Research is rare about patients' participation in …

Patient handover has been shown to be implicated in incidents and work-flow inefficiencies.
Accordingly, increasing research efforts have been devoted to handover. However, the role …

Background Operating room to intensive care unit handoffs are high-risk events for critically
ill patients. Studies in selected patient populations show that standardizing operating room …

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 …

Handoff of patients from the operating room to the intensive care unit is a complex process. It
involves 2 teams of caregivers, the physical relocation of the patient and monitoring …

Handoffs (ie, the exchange of information and responsibility of a patient from one provider or
team to another) are frequent events particularly vulnerable and susceptible to …