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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundPromoting quality and patient safety is one of the health policy pillars of Israel's Ministry of Health. Communication among healthcare professionals is of utmost importance and can be improved using a standardized, well-known handoff tool such
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Variability in Anesthesia Models of Care in Cardiac Surgery
Surgeries, 2021 The operating room in a cardiothoracic surgical case is a complex environment, with multiple handoffs often required by staffing changes, and can be variable from program to program. This study was done to characterize what types of practitioners provide
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Handoffs and the challenges to implementing teamwork training in the perioperative environment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Perioperative handoffs are high-risk events for miscommunications and poor care coordination, which cause patient harm. Extensive research and several interventions have sought to overcome the challenges to perioperative handoff quality and safety, but ...
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Validation of a handoff assessment tool: the Handoff CEX [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2012 Aims and objectives. Test the feasibility and validity of a handoff evaluation tool for nurses.Background. No validated tools exist to assess the quality of handoff communication during change of shift.Design. Prospective cohort study.Methods. A standardised tool, the Handoff CEX, was developed based on the mini‐CEX.
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BMC Medical Education, 2023 Background Safe and effective physician-to-physician patient handoffs are integral to patient safety. Unfortunately, poor handoffs continue to be a major cause of medical errors.
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Development of a handoff evaluation tool for shift‐to‐shift physician handoffs: The handoff CEX [PDF]
Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2013 BACKGROUNDIncreasing frequency of shift‐to‐shift handoffs coupled with regulatory requirements to evaluate handoff quality make a handoff evaluation tool necessary.OBJECTIVETo develop a handoff evaluation tool.DESIGNTool development.SETTINGTwo academic medical centers.SUBJECTSNurse practitioners, medicine housestaff, and hospitalist attendings ...
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Handoffs and Nurse Calls: Overnight Call Simulation for Fourth-Year Medical Students
MedEdPORTAL, 2021 Introduction Interns must be able to give and receive handoffs and use handoff information to respond to calls from nursing staff regarding patient concerns.
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Implementation of a standardized handoff system (I-PASS) in a tertiary care pediatric hospital [PDF]
Revista Paulista de Pediatria, 2023 Objective: The handoff is the act of transferring information and responsibility among healthcare providers, and it is critical for the patient safety and the quality of service.
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Investigating the scope of resident patient care handoffs within neurosurgery. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 INTRODUCTION: Handoffs are defined as verbal and written communications during patient care transitions. With the passage of recent ACMGE work hour rules further limiting the hours interns can spend in the hospital, many fear that more handoffs will ...
Maya A Babu +2 more
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Reliability of Verbal Handoff Assessment and Handoff Quality Before and After Implementation of a Resident Handoff Bundle [PDF]
Academic Pediatrics, 2016 1) To develop validity evidence for the use of the Verbal Handoff Assessment Tool (VHAT) and examine the reliability of VHAT scores, and 2) to determine whether implementation of a resident handoff bundle (RHB) was associated with improved verbal patient handoffs among pediatric resident physicians.In a pre-post design, prospectively audio recorded ...
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