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

Background: The surgical safety checklist (SSC) has been credited with improving team
situation awareness (SA) in the operating room. Although the SSC may support team SA at …

Background Patient handoffs involve the transition of information and responsibility for care
from one health care provider to another. They occur frequently during a patient's …

Background Perioperative handoffs entail transferring responsibility for surgical patients
from one specialized group or team to another. Multiteam system (MTS) theory has not yet …

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

Background Hand-offs in the operating room contribute to poor communication, reduced
team function, and may be poorly coordinated with other activities. Conversely, they may …

Approximately 35 million surgeries are performed each year in the United States, and 300
million surgeries are performed worldwide. Perioperative handoffs link the surgical care …

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

Although teams play an important role in the delivery of health care in virtually every setting,
those of us who have worked in or near the OR understand that teamwork is essential. The …

Objective This study investigates how team cognition occurs in care transitions from
operating room (OR) to intensive care unit (ICU). We then seek to understand how the …