Handoffs in the era of duty hours reform: a focused review and strategy to address changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common …

CM DeRienzo, K Frush, ME Barfield… - Academic …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
With changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Common Program Requirements related to transitions in care effective July 1, 2011 …

Shift-to-shift handoff research: where do we go from here?

LA Riesenberg - Journal of graduate medical education, 2012 - meridian.allenpress.com
In 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that inadequate handoffs are ''where safety
often fails first.''1 Other groups quickly joined the call for improved handoffs. The Joint …

Assessment and standardization of resident handoff practices: PACT project

NM Tapia, SC Fallon, ML Brandt, BG Scott… - Journal of Surgical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour
guidelines have resulted in increased patient care transfers. Although structured hand-over …

“Workin'on our night moves”: how residents prepare for shift handoffs

LG Militello, NA Rattray, ME Flanagan, Z Franks… - The Joint Commission …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Poor-quality handoffs have been associated with serious patient
consequences. Researchers and educators have answered the call with efforts to increase …

Year-end clinic handoffs: a national survey of academic internal medicine programs

E Phillips, C Harris, WW Lee, AT Pincavage… - Journal of General …, 2017 - Springer
Background While there has been increasing emphasis and innovation nationwide in
training residents in inpatient handoffs, very little is known about the practice and …

The patient handoff: a comprehensive curricular blueprint for resident education to improve continuity of care

MV Wohlauer, VM Arora, LI Horwitz, EJ Bass… - Academic …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Abstract In 2010, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education released its
resident duty hours restrictions, requiring that faculty monitor their residents' patient handoffs …

Academic year-end transfers of outpatients from outgoing to incoming residents: an unaddressed patient safety issue

JQ Young, RM Wachter - Jama, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
TRANSFERS OF PATIENT CARE FROM ONE PHYSICIAN to another (handoffs) are
ubiquitous in health care. 1 Two recent developments have focused increased attention on …

Using standardized videos to validate a measure of handoff quality: The handoff mini‐clinical examination exercise

VM Arora, S Berhie, LI Horwitz… - Journal of Hospital …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The most recent iteration of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education duty‐hour regulations includes language mandating handoff education for …

Development, implementation, and dissemination of the I-PASS handoff curriculum: a multisite educational intervention to improve patient handoffs

AJ Starmer, JK O'Toole, G Rosenbluth… - Academic …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Patient handoffs are a key source of communication failures and adverse events in
hospitals. Despite Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements for …

Targeting improvements in patient safety at a large academic center: an institutional handoff curriculum for graduate medical education

S Allen, C Caton, J Cluver, AG Mainous III… - Academic …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Problem Handoffs are an integral component of patient care, and the number of handoffs
has increased as a result of duty hours restrictions for resident physicians. A structured …