Patient Handoff

The transferring of patient care responsibility from one health-care professional to another.

Also Known As:

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Networked: 49 relevant articles (2 outcomes, 8 trials/studies)

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Experts

1.	Cross, Wendy: 2 articles (10/2020 - 04/2018)
2.	Olasoji, Michael: 2 articles (10/2020 - 04/2018)
3.	Plummer, Virginia: 2 articles (10/2020 - 04/2018)
4.	Reed, Fiona: 2 articles (10/2020 - 04/2018)
5.	Shanti, Michelle: 2 articles (10/2020 - 04/2018)
6.	Cameron, Peter: 2 articles (12/2010 - 05/2010)
7.	Evans, Sue M: 2 articles (12/2010 - 05/2010)
8.	Fitzgerald, Mark: 2 articles (12/2010 - 05/2010)
9.	Murray, Angela: 2 articles (12/2010 - 05/2010)
10.	Patrick, Ian: 2 articles (12/2010 - 05/2010)

Related Diseases

1.	Critical Illness (Critically Ill) 01/01/2017 - "While patient handoff is a critical component of safe and effective patient care, our study confirms previous literature demonstrating poor quality handoff from EMS to ED providers in critically ill and injured patients. " 11/01/2015 - "The clinical handover of critically ill postoperative patients from the operating theatre to the intensive care unit is a dynamic and complex process that can lead to communication and technical errors. " 11/01/2015 - "Clinical handover of the critically ill postoperative patient: an integrative review."
2.	Pressure Ulcer (Bedsore) 06/01/2021 - "The aim of this integrative review was to identify which nursing handover interventions were associated with improved patient outcomes, specifically patients' falls, pressure injuries and medication administration errors, in the hospital setting. " 06/01/2021 - "Shift-to-shift nursing handover interventions associated with improved inpatient outcomes-Falls, pressure injuries and medication administration errors: An integrative review." 08/21/2023 - "Despite internationally implemented rapid response systems, falls and pressure injury reduction strategies, and recommendations to conduct clinical handovers at patients' bedside, adverse events persist. " 06/01/2021 - "This review highlights that the implementation of bedside nursing handover and the adoption of standardized handover tools to improve nursing handover communication reduce patient adverse events, specifically falls, pressure injuries, and medication errors. " 01/01/2022 - "Barriers to implementation of nursing clinical handover best practice criteria were identified by the project team and an education strategy was implemented, documentation for recording possible risks of pressure injuries was created, and new positioning aids were purchased and introduced into clinical practice. "
3.	Wounds and Injuries (Trauma) 12/01/2010 - "Clinical handover in the trauma setting: a qualitative study of paramedics and trauma team members." 01/01/2023 - "Patient handover between paramedics and the trauma team is vulnerable to communication errors that may adversely affect patient care. " 09/01/2021 - "Despite the importance of a complete and accurate patient handoff report between EMS and trauma staff, communication is often interrupted, incomplete, or otherwise ineffective. " 11/01/2020 - "A multimethod design was used, including naturalistic observations of clinical handover of trauma patients transferred to a ward and semistructured interviews with both the ICU and ward nurses caring for the trauma patient. " 08/04/2020 - "This technical report outlines a simulation involving patient handover in emergency trauma scenarios. "
4.	Mental Disorders (Mental Disorder) 10/01/2020 - "The aim of this study was to explore the views of consumers with a mental illness about their experiences of being involved in nursing handover on acute mental health inpatient unit post-implementation of a new nursing handover involving consumers. " 04/01/2018 - "The aim of the present study was to explore the views of consumers with a mental illness, without prior involvement in nursing handover, about their need to be involved in nursing handover on an acute mental health inpatient unit. "
5.	Stroke (Strokes) 04/01/2023 - "The excellent score agreement has important implications for treatment decision-making during patient handoff and further in stroke modeling, prediction, and clinical trial registries where missing NIHSS scores may be equivalently substituted from either provider team." 02/01/2021 - "After completing the cause analysis, multiple strategies were pursued: (1) nursing education sheets with texts, illustrations, video, and posters were used; (2) group in-service educational training was organized; (3) an innovative transfer belt was designed; (4) facilities were set up to deliver virtual-reality (VR) training; (5) standard procedures on early rehabilitation exercise in patients with acute stroke were revised and implemented; (6) nursing handover procedures were revised; and (7) education courses on early rehabilitation exercise for post-stroke patients were developed. " 07/01/2014 - "A potential way to improve prehospital stroke care and patient handoff is hospital-directed feedback for emergency medical service (EMS) providers. " 01/01/2017 - "Two reviewers independently assessed eligible studies of paramedics, emergency medical (or ambulance) technicians that reported on the development, evaluation or implementation of (i) generic or specific structured handovers applied to trauma, stroke or myocardial infarction (MI) patients; or (ii) paramedic-initiated care processes at handover or post-handover clinical activity directly related to patient care in secondary care for trauma, stroke and MI. "

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