Background In hospitals, handoffs are episodes in which control of, or responsibility for, a
patient passes from one health professional to another, and in which important information …

Objective: Handoffs of patient care from one nurse to another are an integral part of nursing
practice; but there is abundant evidence that poor communication and variable procedures …

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: Handoffs are ubiquitous to Hospital Medicine and are considered a
vulnerable time for patient safety. PURPOSE: To develop recommendations for hospitalist …

To manage human services based on information, it is necessary to create reliable and valid
information through measurement. The traditional approach to measurement in these …

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 …

Background The transfer of essential information and the responsibility for care of the patient
from one health care provider to another is an integral component of communication in …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Communication is a taken-for-granted human activity that is
recognized as important once it has failed. Communication failures are a major contributor to …

Patient care handoffs are cognitively intense activities, especially on medical and surgical
units where nurses synthesize information across an average of four to five patients every …

Health care providers have a basic responsibility to protect patients from accidental harm. At
the institutional level, creating safe health care organizations necessitates a systematic …