Medical Education 2012: 46: 107–119 Context During the last decade, there has been a
drive to improve the quality of patient care and prevent the occurrence of avoidable errors …

BACKGROUND: Handoffs are ubiquitous to Hospital Medicine and are considered a
vulnerable time for patient safety. PURPOSE: To develop recommendations for hospitalist …

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

Medical Education 2011: 45: 1081–1089 Context Effective handover within the health care
setting is vital to patient safety. Despite published literature discussing strategies to improve …

Hospital handoffs are believed to be a key locus of communication breakdown that can
endanger patient safety and undermine quality of care. Substantial new efforts to better …

Patient handoffs are highly variable and error prone. They have been recognized as a major
health care challenge. Patients in the intensive care unit are particularly vulnerable due to …

BACKGROUND: Poor physician handoff can be a major contributor to suboptimal care and
medical errors occurring in the hospital. Physician handoffs for intensive care unit (ICU)-to …

PURPOSE: The aims of this systematic review were:(1) to analyze the content overlap
between nurse and physician hospital-based handoff documentation for the purpose of …

Methods We conducted a mixed-methods, pre-test/post-test study at a 560-bed academic
health center with 60,000 emergency department (ED) patient visits per year. Admission …

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