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

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

Background: Limits on resident hours increase the frequency of patient hand-offs and may
contribute to information transfer problems that contribute to adverse outcomes. This study …

Multiple health care organizations have identified handoffs as a source of clinical errors;
however, few studies have linked handoff interventions to improved patient outcomes. This …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Communication lapses at the time of patient handoffs are
believed to be common, and yet the frequency with which patients are harmed as a result of …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: The study objectives were to identify emergency department (ED) handoff
practices and describe handoff communication errors among emergency physicians …

Article-at-a-Glance Background The Joint Commission has made a “standardized approach
to hand-off communications” a National Patient Safety Goal. Method An interactive 90 …

Objective Given the complexities of the healthcare environment, efforts to develop
standardized handoff practices have led to widely varying manifestations of handoff tools. A …

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