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Equity in Handoff Practices: A Qualitative Project on Handoffs of Patients with Limited English Proficiency

open access: yesJournal of General Internal Medicine
Handoffs are critical information exchanges between healthcare providers. Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) face increased risk of adverse events from inadequate handoffs; however, the impact of current handoff practices on their care remains understudied.To understand hospitalists' preferences for, assess current practices of, and ...
Sandra Kong   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Beyond Sepsis Survival: Post‐Acute Vulnerability Profiles in Older Home Health Patients

open access: yesJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Older sepsis survivors face elevated rehospitalization risk shaped by multimorbidity and post‐sepsis vulnerability, yet traditional risk models evaluate these factors in isolation. To identify clinically meaningful profiles of coexisting rehospitalization risk factors among older sepsis survivors receiving home health care (HHC), we
Sang Bin You   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Performance Improvement Project to Improve Hand-off Communication Documentation within the Surgical Services Department

open access: yesNursing & Health Sciences Research Journal, 2021
Over 80% of adverse events in healthcare are due to miscommunication. To improve patient safety, The Joint Commission recommended the use of standardized hand-off communication tools in 2012.
Bobbie J. Wich   +3 more
doaj  

Responsibility for Patients after the Handoff

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2012
Even if handoffs are skillfully done, a hospital culture that forbids an off-duty attending physician from commenting on the care of a patient will jeopardize the quality of care.
openaire   +1 more source

Implementing Dysphagia and Cognitive‐Communication Disorder Care: Frontline Perspectives From Nurses in Skilled Nursing and Long‐Term Care

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims and Objectives To examine how registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) working in skilled nursing and long‐term care settings experience dysphagia and cognitive‐communication disorder (CCD) care, with attention to barriers, facilitators and frontline adaptive strategies.
Sundeep Venkatesan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Standardized Handoff: Transferring Medically Complex Pediatric Patients from Inpatient to and Acute Rehabilitation Facility

open access: yes, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project is to improve communication and reduce unplanned readmissions between an inpatient hospital setting and an acute inpatient rehabilitation facility.
Emery, Shelby
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Characteristics, Implementation and Effects of Nurse‐Driven Sepsis Protocols in Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To synthesize evidence on the characteristics, implementation and effects of nurse‐driven sepsis protocols on process‐of‐care indicators and clinical outcomes. Design Systematic review without meta‐analysis. Methods Studies were included if they described and evaluated nurse‐driven sepsis protocols in hospitals.
Alethea Ray See Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining Interdisciplinarity: Sensitization, Reflexivity, and Mobilization Across Landscapes of Practice

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Interdisciplinary research (IDR) is widely promoted as essential for addressing complex societal challenges, yet its enactment remains fraught. We argue that dominant typological and structural approaches miscast IDR and underplay the practical work through which it unfolds.
Ryan Nolan, Frank Siedlok, Paul Hibbert
wiley   +1 more source

Aging Out of Place in Singapore: Effects of Fragmented Health and Long‐Term Care

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how healthcare fragmentation produces institutional displacement for Singapore's aging population, a phenomenon we conceptualise as ‘aging out of place’. It examines how older adults become systematically disconnected from care coordination while remaining physically in place.
M. Ramesh, Jiwei Qian
wiley   +1 more source

Implementing a Standardized Handoff Checklist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The transfer of care between healthcare providers is a crucial time. Accuracy and completeness are key in determining the quality of the patient care by the receiving provider. The Joint Commission determined lack of communication as the number one cause
NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro   +1 more
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