Background Handoff miscommunications are a leading source of medical errors. Error rates
decreased following implementation of the I-PASS handoff program (a bundled intervention …

Background Handoff miscommunications are a leading source of medical errors. Harmful
medical errors decreased in pediatric academic hospitals following implementation of the I …

Miscommunications during patient handoff can lead to harm. The I-PASS bundle has been
shown to improve safety outcomes. Although effective training reliably improves verbal …

Importance Handoff miscommunications are a leading cause of medical errors. Studies
comprehensively assessing handoff improvement programs are lacking. Objective To …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Few studies on the safety or efficacy of current patient
handoff systems exist, and few standardized electronic medical record (EMR)–based …

Background Miscommunications are a leading cause of serious medical errors. Data from
multicenter studies assessing programs designed to improve handoff of information about …

Development of I-PASS. At Boston Children's Hospital, we sought to develop a
comprehensive solution that would effectively address handoff miscommunications. We …

Background Handover of patient information represents a critical time period during a
patient's hospitalisation. While recent guidelines promote standardised communication …

Introduction: Communication failures during shift-to-shift handoffs of patient care have been
identified as a leading cause of adverse events in health care institutions. The I-PASS …

Objective: The overall purpose was to understand the effects of handoff protocols using meta-
analytic approaches. Background: Standardized protocols have been required by the Joint …