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Association between patient safety culture, adverse events, and essential practices during childbirth in six Brazilian maternity hospitals

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study examines whether hospitals with stronger patient safety culture more consistently follow essential birth practices and have fewer adverse outcomes for mothers and newborns and whether this evidence can guide maternity care priorities in patient safety policy.
Zenewton A. S. Gama   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Implementation of a Pathology-Specific Handoff Tool for Residents

open access: yesAcademic Pathology, 2019
Miscommunication is a source of clinical errors. Tools to decrease the risk of miscommunication (ie, patient handoff tools) are routinely used in clinical specialties that see patients but not routinely used in pathology residency programs.
Thomas S. Rogers DO, MPH   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Continuous infectious diseases coverage by merging with a hospitalist practice in a small community hospital system

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Access to infectious diseases physicians has been increasingly difficult, as many infectious diseases fellowship programs have unfilled positions. This has coincided with increasing numbers of internal medicine residents pursuing hospitalist medicine.
Michael S. Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of using “ISBAR” standard checklist on nursing clinical handoff in coronary care units

open access: yesNursing Practice Today, 2020
Background and Objective: Clinical handoff is the process of transmitting information, responsibility and accountability among the health care team members.
Behrouz Pakcheshm   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Patient Handoff [PDF]

open access: yesAcademic Medicine, 2012
In 2010, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education released its resident duty hours restrictions, requiring that faculty monitor their residents' patient handoffs to ensure that residents are competent in handoff communications. Although studies have reported the need to improve the effectiveness of the handoff and a variety of curricula
Max V, Wohlauer   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Quality improvement regarding handoff

open access: yesSAGE 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Things We Do for No Reason™: Withholding opioids among patients with acute pain and opioid use disorder

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Hospitalists care for patients with acute pain who have an opioid use disorder and require pain management. Hospitalists may withhold opioids for acute pain due to a variety of reasons. However, adequate pain management in patients with opioid use disorder, including with opioids, is the standard of care. This piece explains how to best manage
Anna‐Maria South   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

I-PASS Handoff Curriculum: Core Resident Workshop

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2013
The Core Resident Workshop is the centerpiece of the I-PASS Curriculum Collection. The workshop features a 2-hour didactic and interactive session devoted to team training in structured communication techniques, and to the teaching of a standardized ...
Nancy Dollase Spector   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the Utility of a Telehealth Warm Handoff in Integrated Primary Care for Improving Patient Engagement in Mental Health Treatment: Randomized Video Vignette Study

open access: yesJMIR Formative Research, 2023
BackgroundA warm handoff from a physician to a mental health provider is often patients’ first contact with psychological services and provides a unique opportunity for improving treatment engagement in integrated primary care ...
Alex R Fountaine   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying the model for improvement to enhance recruitment and retention in a discharge intervention randomized controlled trial

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background High recruitment, intervention fidelity, and retention rates in clinical trials are necessary to ensure generalizable conclusions; quality improvement (QI) methods can be used to track and improve these rates. The Garnering Effective Telehealth to Help Optimize Multidisciplinary Team Engagement (GET2HOME) study is a randomized ...
Calise Curry   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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