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 …

Purpose Effective handovers (handoffs) are vital to patient safety. Medical educators
investigated educational interventions to improve handovers in a 2011 systematic review …

Purpose The purpose of this systematic review is to appraise and summarize existing
literature on clinical handover. Data sources We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, Database of …

Background: Changing patterns of work in the hospital setting mean different teams look
after the same group of patients over the course of any given day. Shift handovers, or …

Aims and objectives To examine the perspectives of health professionals of different
disciplines about clinical handover. Background Ineffective handovers can cause major …

Aims and objectives To examine clinical handover practices in acute care services in
Ireland. Objectives were to examine clinical handover practices between and within teams …

This document provides a structured evidence based literature review regarding the
effectiveness of improvement interventions in clinical handover covering Australian and …

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

Objective To develop and test a handover performance tool (HPT) able to help clinicians to
systematically assess the quality and safety of shift handovers. Design The study used a …

Clinical handover is one of the most critical steps in a patient's journey and is a core skill that
needs to be taught to health professional students and junior clinicians. Performed well …