The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation offers a free Safer Sign Out form to improve the safety of patient handoffs at the end of a shift. The Safer Sign Out protocol, originally developed by ...

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 ...

Breakdowns in communication can cost lives and dollars. Here's what it takes to create smooth patient handoffs. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the newsletter Briefings on ...

Miscommunication can occur on the receiving end as well. Humans, after all, are fallible. A physician who is interrupted during handoff may not remember what he is told. An overwhelmed physician may ...

A handoff tool designed to make it easier for patients to transition from one provider to another has been integrated into all the major EHRs, such as Epic, Oracle Cerner and Allscripts. The I-Pass ...

The way the medical community views patient handoffs is evolving. Handoffs were once seen simply as the last thing physicians did before leaving the hospital. Now, more physicians realize it's a skill ...

Here are 12 tools that aim to improve patient handoff at healthcare facilities. Digital Nurse Assistant. Developed by PARC, a Xerox company, Digital Nurse Assistant is an electronic medical record ...

The important findings of this study were that interns at Denver Health felt unprepared to hand off patient care adequately, particularly in the first three months of the academic year, and that ...