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

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

Abstract The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires that residency
programs teach residents about handoffs and ensure their competence in this …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patient handoffs in health care require transfer of
information, responsibility, and authority between providers. Suboptimal patient handoffs …

Objective Students are rarely taught communication skills in the context of clinical reasoning
training. The purpose of this project was to combine the teaching of communication skills …

Importance Handoveris the process of transferring pertinent patient information and clinical
responsibility between health care practitioners. Few studies have examined morning …

The objective was to assess use of a physician handoff tool embedded in the electronic
medical record by nurses and other non-physicians. We administered a survey to nurses …

Placing faculty development front and center in a multisite educational initiative: lessons from
the I-PASS Handoff study Placing faculty development front and center in a multisite …

Background Sign-out is the process (written, verbal or both) by which one clinical team
transmits information about patients to another team. Poor quality sign-outs are associated …

Objective. To assess the current state of quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS)
education at a large teaching hospital. Methods. We surveyed 429 trainees (138 residents …