Abstract In 2010, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education released its
resident duty hours restrictions, requiring that faculty monitor their residents' patient handoffs …

Patient handoffs are a key source of communication failures and adverse events in
hospitals. Despite Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements for …

Purpose To develop, teach, and supervise a structured process for handing off patient care
and to evaluate its effect on interns' knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward handoffs. Method …

INTRODUCTION: Handoffs of patient care are increasingly common and are known to
contribute to medical errors. A significant number, if not the large majority, of first‐year …

Purpose Effective communication is central to patient safety. There is abundant evidence of
negative consequences of poor communication and inadequate handoffs. The purpose of …

With changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Common Program Requirements related to transitions in care effective July 1, 2011 …

Background: Residents' shift length reduction and communication errors in transitions of
care necessitate educating residents on handoff communication. Purpose: We examined the …

Abstract The Faculty Observation Tools section contains a set of assessment tools designed
to be used by residency programs implementing the Core Resident Workshop in order to …

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 …

Abstract Background Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour
guidelines have resulted in increased patient care transfers. Although structured hand-over …