Increased focus on handoff problems has led to significant improvements, say patient safety leaders. "We've seen many hospitals set up transitional care management protocols. Medicare and private ...

Patients’ transitions between caregivers pose a risk to safety and may trigger adverse events. In addition, patient handoffs occur multiple times a day for each patient, making it critical for ...

A study published in Journal of General Internal Medicine examined complex interactions and communication norms that shape face-to-face patient handoffs. The receiver characteristics that affected ...

Although recent research has focused on problems for patients arising from daily shift changes, a new study finds that monthly handoffs between residents may present opportunities for more lasting, ...

The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, as part of its graduate medical education policies and procedures, provides a downloadable patient handoff policy and sample form. The three-page policy ...

A new study shows that when clinicians hear a patient described with negatively biased language, they develop less empathy towards the patient and, in some cases, become less accurate in recalling the ...

When doctors and nurses pass patient information from one shift to another - an exchange known as a "handoff" - the specific words they use behind closed doors matter more than they might realize. A ...

Residents and medical students recalled clinical information with less accuracy after hearing a patient handoff rife with biased language, a survey study found. Those who heard handoffs with ...

The classic fumble in the patient handoff is when the specialist thinks the primary care doctor is going to take care of some aspect of follow-up, and the primary care doctor thinks the specialist is ...

Roughly 80% of serious medical errors (now the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer) can be traced to poor communication between care providers during ...

Those who heard handoffs with blame-based bias had less accurate recall than those who heard neutral handoffs (77% vs 93%, P=0.005), according to Austin Wesevich, MD, MPH, MS, of the University of ...