Patient handover in perioperative care represents a critical juncture in the surgical pathway where the transfer of clinical responsibility and detailed patient information is essential to ensuring ...

Delays in the handover of patients from ambulance crews to emergency departments (EDs) across England is causing avoidable harm and knock-on care issues, a healthcare watchdog confirmed. A report by ...

The handover of patient information during nursing shift changes is a key area under investigation in a national effort to improve patient safety in hospitals. In one of seven projects funded by the ...

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 ...

The National Transitions of Care Coalition Advisory Task Force has published a free, downloadable transitions of care checklist. This checklist provides a detailed description of effective patient ...

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 ...

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 potential risk of harm or even significant harm, a report has said. Northern ...