Medical Handover Standards

Safe handover | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j4328

Why is handover important? A narrative review including 69 studies and systematic review of 38 studies showed that poor communication between team members can lead to errors, patient harm, discontinuity of care, inefficient use of resources, and …

Safe Handover : practical guidance | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j4328/rr-0

Based on these incidents I audited the handover process when patients were transferred from EAU to other medical wards. The standards for my audit were based …

Communication at clinical handover - Safety and Quality

https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/standards/nsqhs-standards/communicating-safety-standard/communication-clinical-handover

Acute care toolkit 1: Handover | RCP London

https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/guidelines-policy/acute-care-toolkit-1-handover

Changing work patterns mean that establishing standards for handover should be a priority. ... The sickest patients may require bedside handover, in the …

Teaching clinical handover with ISBAR - BMC Medical …

https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-020-02285-0

Clinical handover is one of the most critical steps in a patient’s journey and is a core skill that needs to be taught to health professional students and junior clinicians. …

Guidance on clinical handover for clinicians and …

https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018-02/bma_handover_college_tutors.pdf

Safe handover: safe patients 3 Effective communication lies at the very heart of good patient care. The General Medical Council recognises this and in its publication Good …

Trust-wide improvement and standardisation of the …

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/trustwide-improvement-and-standardisation-of-the-medical-handover/A70A83871998D7FAC38865F0A5FD110E

Primary: To improve the quality of medical handover by increasing trust-wide completion rate for agreed quality standards from baseline to 80% by July 2019. To …

Development and implementation of electronic medical …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31799446/

We aimed to reduce the number of out-of-hours medical errors by ensuring that there is consistent and transparent weekend medical handover by creating an …

[Medical handovers in ICU: a snapshot of practice in the …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22309619/

The mean time spent for medical handover was 59±35 min on monday morning, significantly longer than other days, evening, and to weekend handovers (P<0.001 for all …

Emergency and acute medical care in over 16s

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs174/chapter/Quality-statement-4-Structured-patient-handovers

Emergency and acute medical care in over 16s