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Clinical Handover in Context: Risks and Protections Across a Hospital Patient’s Journey [PDF]

, 2016
One weekday afternoon an 18-year-old patient, we’ll call her Belinda Page,1 arrives at the emergency department of a busy tertiary teaching hospital, complaining of shortness of breath and chest pain due to a flare-up of her asthma.
Slade, DM, Eggins, S
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Making green easy: providing ward‐based education and resources to optimise pharmaceutical waste management

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Medicines are the most common healthcare intervention. However, disposal of pharmaceutical waste in health facilities contributes significantly to financial costs and carbon emissions, and incorrect disposal can lead to environmental contamination.
Derek Kay, Mya Abigail Acosta, Kristen Pickles, Alexandra Barratt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the community pharmacist in medicine information transfer during transitions of care and the impact on associated outcomes: a scoping review

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Transitions of care (TOC) between hospital and community settings are high‐risk periods for medication‐related problems (MRPs), often caused by inadequate information transfer between healthcare settings. Community pharmacists are well positioned to support continuity of care; however, they are frequently excluded from the ...
Melanie Bailey, Laetitia Hattingh, Mathew Percival, Henry Ndukwe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

iCARE: an Integrated Translational Model of Effective Clinical Handover Communication

, 2016
Our final example of a handover event brings together many of the challenges with clinical handover identified in earlier chapters. Early one weekday evening, Sartaj1, a tall, strong man who speaks English as a second language, brought his wife Indira to
Slade, DM, Eggins, S, Geddes, F
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Fiber Bragg Grating Force Sensors for Minimally Invasive Surgery: State of the Art, Challenges, and Opportunities

SmartBot, EarlyView.
This article reviews the application of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) technology for precise force sensing in minimally invasive surgery. It outlines the fundamental working principles and algorithms used to interpret sensor data. The text surveys clinical applications across various medical fields, such as ophthalmology and vascular intervention (Table of
Shiyuan Dong, Tianqi Huang, Lingyu Chen, Shucong Yin, Qing Chang, Dingpei Han, Yangxi Li, Boyu Zhang, Hongen Liao, Fang Chen   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Taṣvīr-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, Shahriar Mokhtari, Gisoo Alizadeh, Saeed Malekpoor, Fatemeh Zariie Gavgani, Amaneh Mirzaei   +5 more
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Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study describes the work at an emergency and critical care center, focusing on the collaboration of multiple nurses when moving patients from the outpatient department to the ward. This study is an ethnomethodological ethnography based on fieldwork at a hospital and analysis of video data. The patient transport process is temporally organized into
Hiroki Maeda, Yumi Nishimura
wiley   +1 more source

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

BMC 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, Warren, N, Kornman, L, Cameron, P   +3 more
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Veterinary nurses report good interprofessional collaboration with veterinarians, as measured by the Nurse–Physician Collaboration Scale

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Veterinary practices provide exceptional patient care and client support when there is effective teamwork between veterinary nurses and veterinarians. However, the frequency of this interprofessional collaboration has not been measured. Methods A cross‐sectional online survey, using the Nurse‒Physician Collaboration Scale to measure
Samantha J. Fontaine, Kelly Cadman, Euan D. Bennet, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review: Bringing patient safety to the forefront through structured computerisation during clinical handover

, 2010
Aims and objectives: This review aims to examine critically, the methods and modes of delivery of handover used in contemporary health care settings and explore the feasibility of a computerised handover system for improving patient safety.
Davidson, Patricia, Jenelle Matic, Salamonson, Y., Matic, J, Matic, Jenelle (S28184), Salamonson, Y, Yenna Salamonson, Matic, J., Davidson, PM, Davidson, Patricia M., Salamonson, Yenna (R8521), Patricia M Davidson   +11 more
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