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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, Brian V Nahed, Robert F Heary   +2 more
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Handoffs in Emergency Departments: A Mixed-Methods Study on Physician Perspectives, Preferences, and Strategies

Emergency Care and Medicine
Background/Objectives: Among the factors contributing to medical errors and misdiagnosis, patient handoffs play a significant role. The negative impact of handoffs includes miscommunications, omissions, and information loss. Patient handoffs are inherent
Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu, Ronald Pirrallo, Kevin Taaffe, Sudeep Hegde, Steven Foster, William Jackson, Michael Ramsay, Jess Hobbs   +7 more
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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 ...
Shannon Paquette, Molly Kilcullen, Olivia Hoffman, Jessica Hernandez, Ankeeta Mehta, Eduardo Salas, Philip E. Greilich   +6 more
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Improving Patient Safety in General Hospitals Using Structured Handoffs: Outcomes From a National Project

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
Orly Toren, Orly Toren, Michal Lipschuetz, Arielle Lehmann, Gil Regev, Dana Arad   +5 more
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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
Dianne McCallister, Bethany Malone, Jennifer Hanna, Michael S. Firstenberg   +3 more
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Handoffs between takt train wagons: a systematic literature review [PDF]

, 2023
Recent years have seen increased use of takt planning. With takt planning, trades are organized as wagons in a train moving through takt areas in the building.
Drevland, Frode Olav, Andreassen, Mikal
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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.
Leora I, Horwitz, Janet, Dombroski, Terrence E, Murphy, Jeanne M, Farnan, Julie K, Johnson, Vineet M, Arora   +5 more
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Patient handoffs and multi-specialty trainee perspectives across an institution: informing recommendations for health systems and an expanded conceptual framework for handoffs

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.
Sarah R. Williams, Stefanie S. Sebok-Syer, Holly Caretta-Weyer, Laurence Katznelson, Ann M. Dohn, Yoon Soo Park, Michael A. Gisondi, Ara Tekian   +7 more
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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 ...
Leora I, Horwitz, David, Rand, Paul, Staisiunas, Peter H, Van Ness, Katy L B, Araujo, Stacy S, Banerjee, Jeanne M, Farnan, Vineet M, Arora   +7 more
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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.
Tina Chen, Stephanie Stapleton, Matthew Babcock, Mariann Nocera Kelley, Alise Frallicciardi   +4 more
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