Search results for "Handoffs"
Handoffs led to identification of diagnostic errors in single-center study
Hospitalists who took over care from a physician going off service were surveyed about the diagnoses of handed-off patients; 18.2% of the patients had a diagnosis change, and in 5.8% of cases, there appeared to have been a diagnostic error.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/23/handoffs-led-to-identification-of-diagnostic-errors-in-single-center-study.htm
23 Oct 2024
Improving in-hospital handoffs
Any physicians who hand off patients may want to consider how well their messages are being understood, especially because patient safety is at stake.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/17/4.htm
17 Apr 2019
December 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/
Residents report that ‘warm handoffs' enhance patient safety
One residency program implemented a protocol in which the incoming and outgoing residents met at the end of a ward rotation to sign out and jointly round on sicker patients using a bedside-rounding checklist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/23/2.htm
23 Aug 2017
November 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/11/
November 9, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/09/
Face-to-face handoffs didn't reduce adverse events
Patients whose hospitalists handed them off to another clinician in a face-to-face meeting had similar rates of adverse events and length of stay as those who didn't get face-to-face handoffs, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/11/1.htm
11 Mar 2015
October 23, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/23/
Handoff intervention reduces errors, adverse events at multiple hospitals
A handoff improvement program successfully reduced medical errors and preventable adverse events without slowing workflow, according to a study conducted at 9 pediatric hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/11/12/1.htm
12 Nov 2014
July 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/