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Performance of a cognitive load inventory during simulated handoffs: Evidence for validity [PDF]

SAGE Open Medicine, 2016
Background: Advancing patient safety during handoffs remains a public health priority. The application of cognitive load theory offers promise, but is currently limited by the inability to measure cognitive load types.
John Q Young, Christy K Boscardin, Justin L Sewell   +2 more
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Using I-PASS to improve nursing handoffs across the continuum of care at a tertiary oncology hospital [PDF]

BMJ Open Quality
Background Communication failures can cause medical errors that harm patients. Handoffs occur frequently every day—every time a patient is transferred from one nurse to another (eg, shift change, hospital location).
Marina George, Maria C Franco Vega, Mohamed Ait Aiss, Diane Bodurka, Delmy Vesho, Christi Bowe, Son Chau, Jeff Beno, Carol Porter   +8 more
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Quantifying acute care nurses’ experiences of patient handoffs during shift change: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

BMC Nursing
Background The Joint Commission established the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals and the 2010 Provision of Care standard requiring an organization to have a standardized process between the patient handoff giver and receiver.
Vivek Kaliraman, Joni L. Watson
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Evaluating observed and perceived experiences of operating room to paediatric critical care unit handoffs: an initial assessment to inform quality improvement [PDF]

Frontiers in Pediatrics
IntroductionTransferring critically ill patients from the Operating Room (OR) to the Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) is a complex process. Unstructured handoffs and poor communication increase the risk of adverse events.
Jacob Davidson, Emily Walser, Evelyn V. Waugh, Claire A. Wilson, Julie Strychowsky, Julie Strychowsky, Janice Tijssen, Abhijit Biswas, Jennifer Y. Lam, Jennifer Y. Lam   +9 more
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Assessing the impact of a semi-structured intraoperative anaesthesia handoff cognitive aid on surgical patient outcomes: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial [PDF]

BMJ Open
Introduction Intraoperative anaesthesia handoffs represent a risk point in the care of surgical patients. Although often necessary to prevent fatigue, improve vigilance and optimise operational efficiency, critical information can be lost, potentially ...
Lillian S Kao, Charles E Green, Eric J Thomas, Daniel I Sessler, Alparslan Turan, Aubrey Samost-Williams, Srikanth Sridhar   +6 more
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Rediscovering Handoffs [PDF]

Academy of Management Discoveries, 2017
While handoffs are usually defined as a transfer of something between people or things, we define handoffs as a relationship of similarity and difference between activities or events. By using the narrative network to operationalize this relational perspective, we discover a wider and more meaningful spectrum of handoffs and make it available for ...
Brian T Pentland, Jan Recker
exaly   +3 more sources

Handoffs and transitions of care in the intensive care unit: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee clinical consensus document [PDF]

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
Objectives The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Critical Care Committee chose handoffs and transitions of care in the intensive care unit (ICU) as a clinically relevant topic for review.
Deborah M Stein, Hee Soo Jung, Aussama K Nassar, Joseph Cuschieri, Abhijit Pathak, J Jason Hoth, Rachel D Appelbaum, Michael S Farrell, John V Agapian   +8 more
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Impact of an educational intervention on nurses’ perception of handoff process in public hospitals in Katsina, Nigeria: a cluster-randomized trial [PDF]

BMC Nursing
Background Effective patient handoffs are critical for maintaining patient safety and care continuity in healthcare settings. This quasi-experimental study aimed to assess the impact of an educational intervention on improving nursing handoffs in Katsina
Musa Sani Kaware, Mohd Ismail Ibrahim, Mohd Nazri Shafei, Suhaily Mohd Hairon, Abduljaleel Umar Abdullahi   +4 more
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An enhanced approach to minimum variance unbiased velocity estimation, incorporating horizontal and vertical handoff in HetNets [PDF]

Scientific Reports
This paper presents an enhanced approach to Minimum Variance Unbiased (MVU) velocity estimation in Heterogeneous-Networks (HetNets) by addressing horizontal and vertical handoffs.
Ravi Tiwari, Amit Kumar Rahul, Manoj Kumar Singh, Om Namha Shivay, S. Sivakumar, Saurabh Chandra Maury   +5 more
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Quality improvement regarding handoff [PDF]

SAGE Open Medicine, 2017
Background and Objectives: Previous studies have emphasized the importance of effectual communication during patient handoffs. The objectives of this study were to (1) implement a resident-driven quality improvement project to improve handoffs by ...
Scott Studeny, Lauren Burley, Kelsey Cowen, Melanie Akers, Kelly O’Neill, Susan L Flesher   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources