ReviewCritical care (London, England)2012
A handoff is not a telegram: an understanding of the patient is co-constructed.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Daily handover in surgery: systematic review and a novel taxonomy of interventions and outcomes.BJS open · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of electronic reminders on venous thromboprophylaxis after admissions and transfers.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2014Trial
- Enhancing Structured Team Communication in Acute Care Settings with Ambient AI Scribes.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Medical handovers: tacit consensus on interaction.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2025Article
- A Surgical Handover System for Patient Physiology and Safety.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Improving paediatric clinical teaching unit handover: A quality improvement project.Paediatrics & child health · 2025Article
- Enhancing the quality of surgical care through improved patient handover processes.Patient safety in surgery · 2025Article
- Unveiling Intraprofessional Dynamics: Learning Teamwork in Acute Care Consultations Between Paediatric and General Practice Residents.Perspectives on medical education · 2025Article
- The portfolio effect: an opportunity for improving handoffs quality in ICU.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Team Cognition in Handoffs: Relating System Factors, Team Cognition Functions and Outcomes in Two Handoff Processes.Human factors · 2024Article
- Teamwork and mental workload in postsurgical pediatric patient handovers: Prospective effect evaluation of an improvement intervention for OR-PICU patient transitions.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Patient- and Team-Level Characteristics Associated with Handoff Protocol Fidelity in a Hybrid Implementation Study: Results from a Qualitative Comparative Analysis.Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety · 2023Article
- It sounds like a good handover but can I trust it: the correlation between perceived quality and accuracy?MedEdPublish (2016) · 2021Article
- Listening and question-asking behaviors in resident and nurse handoff conversations: a prospective observational study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Article
- How does training in anesthesia residency shape residents' approaches to patient care handoffs? A single-center qualitative interview study.BMC medical education · 2018Article
- Content counts, but context makes the difference in developing expertise: a qualitative study of how residents learn end of shift handoffs.BMC medical education · 2018Article
- Exploring the networking behaviors of hospital organizations.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Am I getting an accurate picture: a tool to assess clinical handover in remote settings?BMC medical education · 2017Article
- Uncertainty, Case Complexity and the Content of Verbal Handoffs at the Emergency Department.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2015Article
- Clinicians' views on improving inter-organizational care transitions.BMC health services research · 2013Article
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Abstract
Hospital handoffs are believed to be a key locus of communication breakdown that can endanger patient safety and undermine quality of care. Substantial new efforts to better understand handoffs and to improve handoff practices are under way. Many such efforts appear to be seriously hampered, however, by an underlying presumption that the essential function of a handoff is one-way information transmission. Here, we examine social science literature that supports a richer framing of handoff conversations, one that characterizes them as co-constructions of an understanding of the patient.
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