The AMA is calling on all Australian hospitals to put in place systems to assist doctors with their clinical handover programs. Clinical handover is the transfer of responsibility for patient care ...
Objectives: Handover across care boundaries poses additional challenges due to the different professional, organizational and cultural backgrounds of the participants involved. This paper provides a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW DELHI: Only 24% of the patients with chronic diseases are able to hand over adequate previous health records and prescriptions provided by their doctors, which are required when they consult a new ...
Continuity of information underlies continuity of care. Handover constitutes the transfer of professional responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of care for a patient, or group of ...
Working hours lost to hospital handover delays have cost an ambulance trust more than £22m in the past year, it can be revealed. East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) lost 166,659 hours while ...
Background: Maternity clinical handover serves to address the gaps in knowledge existing when transitions between individuals or groups of clinicians occur throughout the antenatal, intra-partum and ...
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