Background In hospitals, handoffs are episodes in which control of, or responsibility for, a
patient passes from one health professional to another, and in which important information …

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

Purpose Effective communication is central to patient safety. There is abundant evidence of
negative consequences of poor communication and inadequate handoffs. The purpose of …

Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003 the
organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Numerous quality improvement projects on patient handoffs
have been conducted, yet standardized, reliable measurement tools remain elusive. Handoff …

Objective Given the complexities of the healthcare environment, efforts to develop
standardized handoff practices have led to widely varying manifestations of handoff tools. A …

Medical Education 2011: 45: 1081–1089 Context Effective handover within the health care
setting is vital to patient safety. Despite published literature discussing strategies to improve …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Communication lapses at the time of patient handoffs are
believed to be common, and yet the frequency with which patients are harmed as a result of …

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

Purpose The purpose of this systematic review is to appraise and summarize existing
literature on clinical handover. Data sources We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, Database of …