Meeting
Abstract Number: 309
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Multiple tools have been developed to improve the quality of signout from daytime clinicians to night covering clinicians. However, despite the frequency of holdover signout (new overnight admissions whose care is transferred to a new primary team), there are no studies or generally accepted best practices to ensure a high quality new admission handoff. […]
Abstract Number: J16
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Transitions of care from one service to another are a precarious time with risk of adverse events, medical errors, and clinician dissatisfaction. Every handoff involves transferring information and responsibility for a patient from one physician to another. The appropriateness of transfer is critical to safe patient care. The transfer process from an intensive care […]