Background A high variety of team interventions aims to improve team performance
outcomes. In 2008, we conducted a systematic review to provide an overview of the scientific …

Background Errors in clinical reasoning occur in most cases in which the diagnosis is
missed, delayed or wrong. The goal of this review was to identify interventions that might …

Background Miscommunications are a leading cause of serious medical errors. Data from
multicenter studies assessing programs designed to improve handoff of information about …

Importance Handoff miscommunications are a leading cause of medical errors. Studies
comprehensively assessing handoff improvement programs are lacking. Objective To …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 1042–1054 CONTEXT Many quality improvement education
programmes have been introduced over the last decade with the purpose of enhancing …

Background It is now widely accepted that the mixed effect and success rates of strategies to
improve quality and safety in health care are in part due to the different contexts in which the …

Patient handoffs are a key source of communication failures and adverse events in
hospitals. Despite Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements for …

Background There is a growing impetus to reorganize the hospital discharge process to
reduce avoidable readmissions and costs. The aim of this study was to provide insight into …

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Results Six main challenges with belonging descriptions have been identified:(1) next of kin
(bridging providers, advocacy, support, information brokering),(2) patient characteristics …