International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Vol. 25, No. 1 (February 2013), pp. 58-65 (8 pages) Objective. To develop and test a handover performance tool (HPT) able to help clinicians to ...

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 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 ...

A four-step model aimed at improving clinical handovers can be utilized to achieve efficient, safe and effective process changes, according to research published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

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 ...

Epic added digital health company Ada Health’s artificial intelligence tools to its App Orchard online marketplace. Ada Health customers can now integrate the company’s symptom assessment, care ...