In the recent patient safety literature, there is an increasing agreement that effective patient
handover is critical to patient safety by ensuring appropriate coordination among health-care …

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 …

INTRODUCTION: Establishing continuity of care in handovers at changes of shift is a
challenging endeavor that is jeopardized by time pressure and errors typically occurring …

Background Checklists are common in some medical fields, including surgery, intensive
care and emergency medicine. They can be an effective tool to improve care processes and …

Purpose To summarize the available evidence about patient handoff characteristics and
their impact on subsequent patient care in hospitals. Method In January and February 2011 …

Aim To review studies on hospital doctors' handovers to identify the methods and main
findings. Method A literature search of electronic databases Medline and Embase (via Ovid) …

Handoff among healthcare providers has been recognized as a major source of medical
errors. Most prior research has often focused on the communication aspects of handoff, with …

Background Healthcare has become increasingly complex and care delivery models have
changed dramatically (eg, team-based care, duty-hour restrictions). However, approaches to …

Aim To examine the relation between the strategies the nurses employ during handover and
the number and types of treatment errors in patient care in the following shift. Background …