Breakdowns in teamwork that lead to surgical flow or operative disruptions are exceedingly
common, having been noted at a rate of 17.4 per hour in one cardiac surgery study19 and at …

METHODS A search was conducted using the PubMed and ProQuest databases with the
terms handover, handoff, and patient transfer and combinations of each term with the terms …

With the continuous rise of sentinel and adverse events due to ineffective communication, it
is time for health care organizations to start implementing a focus on enhancing effective …

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

Article-at-a-Glance Background Numerous quality improvement projects on patient handoffs
have been conducted, yet standardized, reliable measurement tools remain elusive. Handoff …

Patient handoffs at shift change are a ubiquitous and potentially hazardous process in
emergency care. As crowding and lengthy evaluations become the standard for an …

Background: Transfers of patient care and responsibility among caregivers,“handovers,” are
common. Whether handovers worsen patient outcome remains unclear. The authors tested …

Aims To synthesize outcomes from research on handoffs to guide future computerization of
the process on medical and surgical units. Background Handoffs can create important …

OBJECTIVE Recent advances in optics and miniaturization have enabled the development
of a growing number of minimally invasive procedures, yet innovative training methods for …

Communicating with patients is arguably the most common and important activity in medical
practice, but this activity receives relatively little emphasis in graduate medical education …