Patient handover in perioperative care represents a critical juncture in the surgical pathway where the transfer of clinical responsibility and detailed patient information is essential to ensuring ...

A lack of consistency among postoperative patient handovers can lead to poor clinical outcomes, according to research published in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. Researchers from the ...

Almost half (47%; n = 14) of the participants described having some awareness of a handover process prior to being invited to take part in the study, with 8 (27%) having experienced this through the ...

The county's five A&E departments all saw a fall in ambulance transfer times between April 2024 and November this year, ...

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 ...

Delays in the handover of patients from ambulance crews to emergency departments (EDs) across England is causing avoidable harm and knock-on care issues, a healthcare watchdog confirmed. A report by ...

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 ...

Michelle Gray recalls from her years as a critical-care nurse that many patients and their families had no idea what was going on with their care. She realized that lack of information made being in ...