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Critcomms: a national cross-sectional questionnaire based study to investigate prehospital handover practices between ambulance clinicians and specialist prehospital teams in Scotland

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2018
Background Poor communication during patient handover is recognised internationally as a root cause of a significant proportion of preventable deaths. Improving the accuracy and quality of handover may reduce associated mortality and morbidity.
David Fitzpatrick   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient satisfaction after implementation of person-centred handover in oncological inpatient care - A cross-sectional study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Effective nurse shift-to-shift handover is a prerequisite for high-quality inpatient care. Combining person-centeredness with the need for improved handover rituals, we introduced and evaluated person-centered handover (PCH) in an oncological inpatient ...
Anna Kullberg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in adulthood: Gaps in evidence and care

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a heterogeneous group of the most severe epilepsies, characterized by seizure onset and neurodevelopmental delay in infancy or childhood, often with additional neurological and systemic comorbidities.
Alex M. Dudley   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning the TIDE: Paediatric Provider Perspectives on Implementing a Transition Intervention for Eating Disorders

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This qualitative study aimed to explore paediatric providers' perspectives on the acceptability, feasibility, and appropriateness of the Transition Intervention for Eating Disorders (TIDE) within existing specialised paediatric eating disorder (ED) programs to inform its refinement and implementation in real‐world clinical settings ...
Maria Nicula   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesJMIR 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engineering an artificial trachea: Quantitative benchmarks and modular strategies for mechanics, epithelialization, and vascular integration

open access: yesFlexMat, EarlyView.
In this work, we first examine the limitations of surgical repair and stenting, including migration, granulation, mucus plugging, and infection. We then translate these failures into engineering constraints involving geometry, mechanics, fixation, degradation, junctional stress, and remodeling.
Yiwei Xu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Measurement Tools of Observation Rate of Nursing Handover Standards in Clinical Wards of Hospital [PDF]

open access: yesTaṣvīr-i salāmat, 2014
Background and objectives : In health centers, clinical information of patient is transferred among care staffs regularly. One of the common cases in information transferring is during the time of nurses’ handover in hospital which performing it ...
Saadi Amini   +5 more
doaj  

Patients' perceptions of safety and quality of maternity clinical handover [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2011
Maternity clinical handover serves to address the gaps in knowledge existing when transitions between individuals or groups of clinicians occur throughout the antenatal, intra-partum and postnatal period. There are limited published studies on maternity handover and a paucity of information about patients' perceptions of the same.
Chin, GSM   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

A survey of handover algorithms in DVB-H [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds (DVB-H) is a standard for broadcasting IP Datacast (IPDC) services to mobile handheld terminals. Based on the DVB-T standard, DVB-H adds new features such as time slicing, MPE-FEC, in-depth interleavers ...
Owens, TJ, Yang, XD, Vare, J
core   +1 more source

Impact of geographic localization on hospital length of stay: Evidence of a dose–response relationship

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Geographic localization of patients and clinicians is a common approach to improve teamwork and efficiency, reduce hospital length of stay (LOS), and improve patient experience. We implemented a multidisciplinary initiative, called Patient‐Centered Teams (PaCT), which reengineered bed management procedures and localized several ...
Deonni P. Stolldorf   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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