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Improving measurement in clinical handover
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2009Poor clinical handover creates discontinuities in care leading to patient harm. However, the field of handover research continues to lack standardised definitions and reliable measurement tools to identify factors that would lead to harm reduction and improved safety strategies.This paper introduces a conceptual framework to underpin a research agenda ...
Jeffcott, S. +4 more
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Resilience in healthcare and clinical handover
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2009Understanding and applying human factors in healthcare provides significant opportunities for improving patient safety. A key human factors concept is "resilience," which investigates how individuals, teams and organisations monitor, adapt to and act on failures in high-risk situations. Although it is a new concept to healthcare, it is well accepted in
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iSoBAR — a concept and handover checklist: the National Clinical Handover Initiative
Medical Journal of Australia, 2009Effective communication at clinical handover is important for improving patient safety and reducing adverse outcomes. In consultation with doctors, nurses and allied health staff in the Western Australian Country Health Service, we developed a clinical handover checklist, adapted from an existing tool for standardising communication.
Jill M, Porteous +3 more
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Nursing clinical handover in neonatal care
Contemporary Nurse, 2014Clinical handover ensures continuity of care, providing the opportunity to transfer responsibility and accountability for the care of a patient from nurse to nurse.The aim of this study was to examine afternoon nursing clinical handover from the perspective of nurses, exploring the quality of information, the interactions and support, the efficiency ...
Brown, Janie, Sims, S.
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Clinical and Non-Clinical Handovers
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2017Recent studies call for attention to the relevant work that non-clinical personnel do, not only to support clinical work, but also to the overall healthcare information infrastructure. Based on a case study of orderlies work in a major university hospital, we further investigate and characterize orderlies work with particular focus on handover ...
Allan Stisen, Nervo Verdezoto
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2016
Handover can present opportunities for a number of medical errors. Geriatric patients are at particularly high risk of misadventure as a result of growing medical complexity with age, with such complexity typically resulting in the involvement of multiple clinicians and thus multiple layers of handover during an episode of care.
Mariam Abdurrahman, Claudia Garcia
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Handover can present opportunities for a number of medical errors. Geriatric patients are at particularly high risk of misadventure as a result of growing medical complexity with age, with such complexity typically resulting in the involvement of multiple clinicians and thus multiple layers of handover during an episode of care.
Mariam Abdurrahman, Claudia Garcia
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Internal Medicine Journal, 2019
AbstractBackgroundEffective clinical handover has always been integral to delivering safe, high‐quality care in medical wards.AimAs handover activity increases in importance we wanted to explore the experience of physicians and trainee doctors. There is little research on internal medicine handover with even less based on direct observational research ...
Sinead Donnelly +3 more
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AbstractBackgroundEffective clinical handover has always been integral to delivering safe, high‐quality care in medical wards.AimAs handover activity increases in importance we wanted to explore the experience of physicians and trainee doctors. There is little research on internal medicine handover with even less based on direct observational research ...
Sinead Donnelly +3 more
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The practice of clinical handover: a respite perspective
British Journal of Nursing, 2014This article aims to reflect on handovers that take place in respite settings—a healthcare setting with little mention in the literature. The author presents a reflective account of the practice of handover in one respite unit in south-east England. As these are the author's own observations and experience, no reflective model has been used as a guide.
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The usefulness and feasibility of a reflexivity method to improve clinical handover
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2006AbstractObjective The evaluation of the usefulness and feasibility of the reflexivity method (RM), which encourages dialogue and reflections between doctors, and enables change.Methods On the basis of literature research into effective medical professional learning and reflection, essential elements that stimulate reflection and learning were ...
Broekhuis, Manda, Veldkamp, Carla
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Communication & Medicine, 2013
Clinical handover – the transfer between clinicians of responsibility and accountability for patients and their care (AMA 2006) – is a pivotal and high-risk communicative event in hospital practice. Studies focusing on critical incidents, mortality, risk and patient harm in hospitals have highlighted ineffective communication – including incomplete ...
Suzanne, Eggins, Diana, Slade
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Clinical handover – the transfer between clinicians of responsibility and accountability for patients and their care (AMA 2006) – is a pivotal and high-risk communicative event in hospital practice. Studies focusing on critical incidents, mortality, risk and patient harm in hospitals have highlighted ineffective communication – including incomplete ...
Suzanne, Eggins, Diana, Slade
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