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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...