Almost half (47%; n = 14) of the participants described having some awareness of a handover process prior to being invited to take part in the study, with 8 (27%) having experienced this through the ...

The Royal College of Physicians, based in London, has published a free, downloadable toolkit focusing on patient handovers. The toolkit provides “a framework for standardization of clinical handover ...

Completely handing a patient off from one anesthesiologist to another during cardiac surgery is associated with significantly higher risks of mortality, as well as longer stays in the ICU and hospital ...

A four-step model aimed at improving clinical handovers can be utilized to achieve efficient, safe and effective process changes, according to research published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

Emergency Department handover practices are a critical aspect of patient safety and care continuity. Integral to the transition of responsibility from pre-hospital services to in-hospital teams, ...

Poor clinical handover in hospitals is rendering the system prone to misses and near misses, warn doctors in a letter to this week's BMJ. The introduction of the European Working Time Directive has ...

A "dramatic deterioration" in ambulance handover performance is placing a significant and increasing number of patients at ...

Why aren’t hospitals better at communicating? The founders of Careful say the problem is not the old cliché about doctors being good at treating patients, but hopeless at talking to them; rather, most ...

Patients face the longest average waits for being passed on by ambulance crews to A&E at hospitals in the Midlands, data released by NHS England has revealed. Analysis of figures by The Independent ...

The participants in this study described patient-centred strategies to promote quality and safety through handover through TSA between clinicians as well as patients (and support people). This ...