E SPECIAL ARTICLE aSeveral sources40–42 also provide information that may be useful to
developers of evaluation checklists, such as those used to record or evaluate the …

Human errors form a significant portion of preventable mishaps in healthcare. Even the most
competent clinicians are not immune to it. Errors in the perioperative period can often have …

Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to ascertain the impact of
operating room (OR) to intensive care unit (ICU) handoff interventions on process-based …

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews of non‐randomized controlled trials (RCTs) suggest that
using a checklist results in fewer medical errors and adverse events, but these evaluations …

Significance Perioperative handoffs interconnect the preoperative, intraoperative, and
postoperative phases underlying surgical care to maintain care continuity—yet are prone to …

Background Perioperative handoffs occur as patients progress through preoperative,
intraoperative, and postoperative phases of care. These may occur between clinicians from …

Background Patient handoffs from an operating room (OR) to an intensive care unit (ICU)
require precise coordination among surgical, anesthesia, and critical care teams. Although …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Patient handovers (handoffs) following surgery have often
been characterized by poor teamwork, unclear procedures, unstructured processes, and …

Aim To describe how nursing staff in a paediatric ward improved the conduct of clinical
handover, using a practise development approach. Background ISBAR (Identify, Situation …

(1) Background: we compare a new SBAR based electronic handover tool versus a paper-
based checklist for handover in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).(2) Methods: this is a …