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Clinical handover: An audit from Australia. [PDF]

Australas Med J, 2014
The Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service (NHQHS) Standards (the "Standards") provide external criteria for hospitals to assess their practices. Since the introduction of the Standards, no Australian hospital has published a report on how its handover practices compare to these Standards.To evaluate house medical officer (HMO) shift-to ...
Pascoe H, Gill SD, Hughes A, McCall-White M.   +3 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Nurses’ perceptions of bedside clinical handover in a medical-surgical unit: An interpretive descriptive study

Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2017
Background: Clinical handover is the transfer of relevant and important information and responsibility for patient care from one healthcare provider to another.
Shahidah Binte Roslan, Mei Ling Lim
doaj   +3 more sources

Exploring the Impact of Electronic Medical Record–Enabled Versus Paper-Based Systems on the Quality of Nursing Handover: Comparative Case-Study [PDF]

JMIR Nursing
BackgroundIneffective clinical handover has the potential to compromise patient safety and quality of care. Standardizing the handover process is a widely adopted improvement strategy intended to reduce failures of information transfer.
Lisa Browning, Urooj Raza Khan, Sandra Leggat, Nicholas Monypenny, James H Boyd   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Effects of inadequate hospital clinical handover on metropolitan general practitioners in Queensland: A qualitative study.

Australian Journal of General Practice
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Transition from hospital to community care is well established as a high-risk time for patients. Inadequate clinical handover to general practice puts patients at risk of medical error, adverse events and rehospitalisation.
Kate Johnston, Joan Cassimatis, Laetitia Hattingh   +2 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Clinical Handover Practice in the Emergency and Trauma Department of SASMEC@IIUM: An Observational Qualitative Study.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARE SCHOLARS, 2023
Introduction: Clinical handover is a critical nature of communication between the staff, given it physicians, nurses or even the assistant medical officer. Specifically, in Emergency and Trauma Department(ETD) where turnover of patients is high in a fast-
N. Ahayalimudin, Hairanni Mohd Noh, A. M. Mohd. Shah, Nur Zaharatul Zahirah Norazman   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

112 Improving Clinical Handover [PDF]

Digital poster presentations, 2020
Background Handover is an important clinical skill combining knowledge, prioritisation and communication. This has been highlighted within the emergency working patterns essential for patient care during the pandemic. Effective handover can reduce the incidence of adverse events and benefit patients, clinicians and the hospital.
Sevasti Konstantinidou, Nikita Patel, Jayaram Sivaraj, Manal Dhaiban, Stavros Loukogeorgakis, Ceri Jones   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Quality Improvement Project to Improve the Resident Doctors’ Out-of-Hours Clinical Handover System at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) [PDF]

BJPsych Open
Aims: An effective and safe clinical handover system is at the heart of safe healthcare delivery, ensuring continuity of care between clinical teams.
Ayodeji Akerele, Abiodun Omonori, Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan, Catherine Faruqi, Kehinde Junaid   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Clinical handover of immediate post-operative patients: A literature review

Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2018
Introduction: The transfer of professional responsibility for some or all aspects of patient care, within and between professional groups on a temporary or permanent basis, is termed clinical handover.
Samantha Clarke, Karen Clark-Burg, Elaine Pavlos   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Mapping and assessing clinical handover training interventions [PDF]

BMJ Quality & Safety, 2012
Background The literature reveals a patchwork of knowledge about the effectiveness of handover and transfer of care-training interventions, their influence on handover practices and on patient outcomes. We identified a range of training interventions, defined their content, and then proposed practical measures for ...
Stoyanov, Slavi, Boshuizen, Els, Groene, Oliver, Van der Klink, Marcel, Kicken, Wendy, Drachsler, Hendrik; id_orcid 0000-0001-8407-5314, Barach, Paul   +6 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Patients prefer clinical handover at the bedside; nurses do not: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment. [PDF]

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2019
BACKGROUND Shift-to-shift bedside handover is advocated as a patient-centred approach, yet its enactment is challenging. OBJECTIVES To describe and compare the preferences of both patients and nurses in the implementation of bedside handover in a ...
L. Oxelmark, J. Whitty, K. Ulin, W. Chaboyer, A. S. Oliveira Gonçalves, M. Ringdal   +5 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources