Improving clinical handovers: creating local solutions for a global problem.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Effect of a systems intervention on the quality and safety of patient handoffs in an internal medicine residency program.Journal of general internal medicine · 2013
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2. Obstetric shift-to-shift handover in Kerala, India: A cross-sectional mixed method study.PloS one · 2022
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3. Emergency Care Handover (ECHO study) across care boundaries: the need for joint decision making and consideration of psychosocial history.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2015
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4. Understanding the perceptions and experiences of Certified Registered Nurse Anaesthetists regarding handovers: a focus group study.Nursing open · 2014
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5. Development of a handoff evaluation tool for shift-to-shift physician handoffs: the Handoff CEX.Journal of hospital medicine · 2013
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6. Brief educational intervention improves content of intern handovers.Journal of graduate medical education · 2013
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7. Learning from incident reports in the Australian medical imaging setting: handover and communication errors.The British journal of radiology · 2013
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8. Stakeholder perspectives on handovers between hospital staff and general practitioners: an evaluation through the microsystems lens.BMJ quality & safety · 2012
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9. Patient opinion regarding patient-centered medical home fundamentals.Southern medical journal · 2012
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10. The patient handoff: a comprehensive curricular blueprint for resident education to improve continuity of care.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2012
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11. Clinicians adopting evidence based guidelines: a case study with thromboprophylaxis.BMC health services research · 2011
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  What are covering doctors told about their patients? Analysis of sign-out among internal medicine house staff.2009
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  Use of strategies from high-reliability organisations to the patient hand-off by resident physicians: practical implications.2009
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  "There is a chain of Chinese whispers ...": empirical data support the call to formally teach handover to prequalification doctors.2009

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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