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

Background Communication errors are a contributing cause of approximately two-thirds of
sentinel events, 3 over half of which involve handoff failures. 4 In health care, the magnitude …

Children with medical complexity, regardless of underlying diagnoses, share similar
functional and resource use consequences, including: intensive service needs, reliance on …

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

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

Background Handoff miscommunications are a leading source of medical errors. Harmful
medical errors decreased in pediatric academic hospitals following implementation of the I …

The Seamless Transitions and (Re) admissions Network (STARNet) met in December 2012
to synthesize ongoing hospital-to-home transition work, discuss goals, and develop a plan to …

Pediatric hospitalists care for many hospitalized children in community and academic
settings, and they must partner with administrators, other inpatient care providers, and …

Background In 2009 the I-PASS Study Group was formed by patient safety, medical
education, health services research, and clinical experts from multiple institutions in the …

Background and objectives Despite the American College of Emergency Physicians and
American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for standardised handoffs in the …