The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, as part of its graduate medical education policies and procedures, provides a downloadable patient handoff policy and sample form. The three-page policy ...

The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation offers a free Safer Sign Out form to improve the safety of patient handoffs at the end of a shift. The Safer Sign Out protocol, originally developed by ...

Breakdowns in communication can cost lives and dollars. Here's what it takes to create smooth patient handoffs. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the newsletter Briefings on ...

Here are 12 tools that aim to improve patient handoff at healthcare facilities. Digital Nurse Assistant. Developed by PARC, a Xerox company, Digital Nurse Assistant is an electronic medical record ...

In clinical handoffs, biased language can hinder empathy and negatively affect clinicians’ ability to recall patient health information, according to a study published Dec. 17 in JAMA. To examine the ...

The classic fumble in the patient handoff is when the specialist thinks the primary care doctor is going to take care of some aspect of follow-up, and the primary care doctor thinks the specialist is ...

When doctors and nurses pass patient information from one shift to another - an exchange known as a "handoff" - the specific words they use behind closed doors matter more than they might realize. A ...

Smooth patient handoffs and referrals are the backbone of safe, high-quality care. When communication breaks down between providers, patients face higher risks of complications, readmissions, and ...

A new study shows that when clinicians hear a patient described with negatively biased language, they develop less empathy towards the patient and, in some cases, become less accurate in recalling the ...

Mortality rates are higher among hospitalized patients who are transitioned when a physician in training is rotated to another specialty. The rotation-associated increase in mortality rate worsened ...

Residents and medical students recalled clinical information with less accuracy after hearing a patient handoff rife with biased language, a survey study found. Those who heard handoffs with ...