Patient safety continues to be a major concern for healthcare providers and organizations.
Handovers, also called handoffs, serve as the transfer of postoperative care from the …

Purpose The purpose of this integrative review was to synthesize and critique the literature
related to protocols, checklists, and tools designed to facilitate information transfers, that is …

Objective: The overall purpose was to understand the effects of handoff protocols using meta-
analytic approaches. Background: Standardized protocols have been required by the Joint …

BACKGROUND Handovers during anaesthesia are common, and failures in communication
may lead to morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES We hypothesised that intraoperative …

Anaesthesia handoffs are associated with negative outcomes (eg inappropriate treatments,
post-operative complications, and in-hospital mortality). To minimise these adverse …

Postoperative handover of patients has been described as a complex work process
challenged by interruptions, time pressure and a lack of supporting framework. The purpose …

Objective Handover without a structured format is prone to the omission of information and
could be a potential risk to patient safety. We sought to determine the effect of a structured …

Aim Simulation‐based nursing education interventions have a strong educational effect on
psychomotoric skills, but students may experience physiological stress and anxiety during …

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

Purpose Anesthesia to postanesthesia care unit (PACU) handoffs are often incomplete,
imprecise, and highly variable with respect to information transfer, and therefore can …