Improving the environment of handover: a quality improvement project

J Wood, R Hopkins, C Doughty, C Durrington… - Future Hospital …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aims It has been well documented that clinical handover is a high-risk time for patient safety.
This problem has only been exacerbated by more handovers taking place with the …

679 Trainee Perceptions of Safety in General Surgery Handover–a Quality Improvement Project

A Egbe, L Cruddas, S Greenfield - British Journal of Surgery, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aim Effective patient handover is an important cornerstone of clinical care and patient safety.
The aim of this study was to measure trainee perceptions of handover safety, and to improve …

Improving Medical Handover Using a Structured Handover Algorithm

DA Chatterjee, A Bohorquez - Journal of Patient Safety & …, 2023 - journals.mums.ac.ir
Introduction: Handover is an important part of clinical practice and its failure is a major
preventable cause of patient harm. With increasingly varied work patterns for all healthcare …

Improving Medical Handover: An SHO-Led Approach to Implementing A Formalized Handover System

R Hallam, K Kumar, S Akintunde… - European Journal of …, 2021 - ej-med.org
Handover is a high-risk exercise. As the number of doctors in hospitals vary between shifts,
continuity of care must be secured from many professionals down to a few. Literature has …

Safe handover: safe patients-the electronic handover system

A Till, H Sall, J Wilkinson - BMJ Open Quality, 2014 - bmjopenquality.bmj.com
Failure of effective handover is a major preventable cause of patient harm. We aimed to
promote accurate recording of high-quality clinical information using an Electronic Handover …

Handovers: The 'Hidden Threat'to Patient Safety

TJ Grundy, NA Ferran - Patient Safety in Surgery, 2014 - Springer
Handover is the process of transfer of clinical patient information between doctors ending
their shift and those starting their shift and taking responsibility for patient care. Reduction in …

The published literature on handoffs in hospitals: deficiencies identified in an extensive review

MD Cohen, PB Hilligoss - BMJ Quality & Safety, 2010 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
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 …

Ten tips for optimising your handover

S van der Leij, MM Schneider, SE Geerlings… - Nederlands Tijdschrift …, 2015 - europepmc.org
Patient handover is of major importance for continuity of care and contributes to patient
safety. According to Joint Commission International (JCI), an American quality institute, 67 …

“There is a chain of Chinese whispers…”: empirical data support the call to formally teach handover to prequalification doctors

JA Cleland, S Ross, SC Miller… - BMJ Quality & Safety, 2009 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background: Changing patterns of work in the hospital setting mean different teams look
after the same group of patients over the course of any given day. Shift handovers, or …

Factors that impact on the safety of patient handovers: an interview study

IMD Siemsen, MAND MADSeN… - … journal of public …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: Improvement of clinical handover is fundamental to meet the challenges of patient
safety. The primary aim of this interview study is to explore healthcare professionals' …