Observational studyJournal of critical care2016
Information handoff and outcomes of critically ill patients transferred between hospitals.
Observational study in Journal of critical care, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Enhancing Electronic Availability of Hospital Records Following Interhospital Transfer From Emergency Departments to a Veterans Affairs Hospital.Military medicine · 2026Article
- Interfacility Transfer and Admission to PICUs in the United States: Survey of Referral Communications in 2023.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2025Article
- Development and Evaluation of I-PASS-to-PICU: A Standard Electronic Template to Improve Referral Communication for Interfacility Transfers to the Pediatric ICU.Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety · 2024Article
- "EM Doc On Call:" A Pilot Study to Improve Interhospital Transfers in Rwanda.Prehospital and disaster medicine · 2023Article
- Factors affecting the length of stay in the emergency department for critically Ill patients transferred to regional emergency medical center.Nursing open · 2023Article
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- Sepsis as the primary admitting diagnosis of transferred patients who died within 48 hours of arrival at a Central Texas hospital.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2019Article
- Telemedicine for Interfacility Nurse Handoffs.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2019Article
- A Qualitative Study of Risks Related to Interhospital Transfer of Patients with Nontraumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2019Article
- Assessing adequacy of emergency provider documentation among interhospital transferred patients with acute aortic dissection.World journal of emergency medicine · 2019Article
- Insurance Coverage Predicts Mortality in Patients Transferred Between Hospitals: a Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Observational
- Diagnostic Discordance, Health Information Exchange, and Inter-Hospital Transfer Outcomes: a Population Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Article
- Venous Thromboembolism Rates in Transferred Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Article
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- Developing and Validating a Pediatric Potentially Avoidable Transfer Quality Metric.American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical QualityArticle
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Abstract
purposePatients transferred between hospitals are at high risk of adverse events and mortality. This study aims to identify which components of the transfer handoff process are important predictors of adverse events and mortality. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe conducted a retrospective, observational study of 335 consecutive patient transfers to 3 intensive care units at an academic tertiary referral center. We assessed the relationship between handoff documentation completeness and patient outcomes. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality. Secondary outcomes included adverse events, duplication of labor, disposition error, and length of stay.
resultsTransfer documentation was frequently absent with overall completeness of 58.3%. Adverse events occurred in 42% of patients within 24 hours of arrival, with an overall in-hospital mortality of 17.3%. Higher documentation completeness was associated with reduced in-hospital mortality (odds ratio [OR], 0.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.02 to 0.38; P = .002), reduced adverse events (coefficient, -2.08; 95% CI, -2.76 to -1.390; P < .001), and reduced duplication of labor (OR, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.04 to 0.88; P = .033) when controlling for severity of illness.
conclusionsDocumentation completeness is associated with improved outcomes and resource utilization in patients transferred between hospitals.
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