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Response to patient safety incidents in healthcare settings in Ghana: the role of teamwork, communication openness, and handoffs

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Patient safety incidents (PSIs) in healthcare settings are a critical concern globally, and Ghana is no exception. Addressing PSIs to improve health outcomes requires various initiatives to be implemented including improving patient safety ...
Collins Atta Poku, Priscilla Yeye Adumoah Attafuah, Emmanuel Anongeba Anaba, Patience Aseweh Abor, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Aaron Asibi Abuosi   +5 more
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Team-Based Simulation for Medical Student Handoff Education

MedEdPORTAL, 2016
Introduction Good handoffs require teamwork, clear communication, a cognitively safe environment, and a good understanding of the patient's medical needs.
Alanna Higgins Joyce
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MeshScan: Performance of Passive Handoff and Active Handoff [PDF]

2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications & Signal Processing, 2009
A core problem of fast handoff is when handoff should perform and which Mesh Node (MN) should associated with. We have developed a fast handoff management scheme called MeshScan to provide a novel use of channel scanning latency, by employing open system authentication in both Passive Handoff and Active Handoff.
Chen, Yin, Kowalik, Karol, Davis, Mark
openaire   +2 more sources

Lack of association between intraoperative handoff of care and postoperative complications: a retrospective observational study

BMC Anesthesiology, 2019
Background The significance of intraoperative anesthesia handoffs on patient outcomes are unclear. One aspect differentiating the disparate results is the treatment of confounding factors, such as patient comorbidities and surgery time of day.
Vikas N. O’Reilly-Shah, Victoria G. Melanson, Cinnamon L. Sullivan, Craig S. Jabaley, Grant C. Lynde   +4 more
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Teaching Video and Checklist: “Falling Through the Cracks: Year-End Resident Clinic Handoffs”

MedEdPORTAL, 2012
Clinic handoffs affect a vast number of patients each year. Studies have demonstrated that these handoffs place patients at risk for poor outcomes and discontinuous care.
Amber T. Pincavage, Wei Wei Lee, Shana Ratner, Marcus Dahlstrom, Kimberly Beiting, Mark Saathoff, Vineet M. Arora   +6 more
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Teaching Video: “Handoffs: A Typical Day on the Wards”

MedEdPORTAL, 2011
Numerous studies have shown the vulnerability of care transitions in hospital care. This teaching video represents a worst-case communication failure scenario based on a string of common, yet avoidable, pitfalls in patient handoffs as documented in our ...
Vineet Arora, Jeanne M. Farnan, John A.M. Paro, Arpana Vidyarthi, Julie K. Johnson   +4 more
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Teaching Video and Workshop Exercises: “Putting the Patient First: Engineering Patient-Oriented Clinic Handoffs (EPOCH)”

MedEdPORTAL, 2014
Clinic handoffs occur when residents graduate and patients are transitioned to another primary care physician. Numerous patients are at risk for poor outcomes and face many barriers to effective care during clinic handoffs(1-5).
Amber Pincavage, Wei Wei Lee, Shana Ratner, Megan Prochaska, Andrew Davis, Mark Saathoff, Vineet Arora   +6 more
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Effectiveness of ISBAR Protocol Implementation by Emergency Medicine Residents in Pediatric Handovers; A Pre-post Intervention Study

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Effective information transfer between healthcare providers is essential for patient safety. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of ISBAR (Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) framework on the quality of ...
Negin Mousaeinejad, Forugh Charmduzi, Shaqayeq Khosravi, Kiana Khosravi , Shabahang Jafarnejad, Zahra Mahyapourlori , Ahmad Moayedfard, Sayed Mahdi Marashi   +7 more
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Content counts, but context makes the difference in developing expertise: a qualitative study of how residents learn end of shift handoffs

BMC Medical Education, 2018
Background Handoff education is both formal and informal and varies widely across medical school and residency training programs. Despite many efforts to improve clinical handoffs, little evidence has shown meaningful improvement.
Nicholas A. Rattray, Patricia Ebright, Mindy E. Flanagan, Laura G. Militello, Paul Barach, Zamal Franks, Shakaib U. Rehman, Howard S. Gordon, Richard M. Frankel   +8 more
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Identifying emergency physicians’ strategies for mitigating workload transfers during end of shift patient handoffs – A qualitative analysis

Human Factors in Healthcare
In hospital emergency departments (EDs), emergency physicians (EPs) regularly handoff patients to one another at shift changes. While previous studies have focused on standardizing communication practices during handoffs, these efforts do not address how
Steven Foster, Sudeep Hegde, Ronald Pirrallo, Vishnu Girishan Prabhu, Kevin Taaffe, Michael Ramsay, William Jackson   +6 more
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