SAN FRANCISCO — A checklist can improve communication and reduce errors when one doctor hands a patient off to another, a new study shows. "This is something that can be used broadly to improve ...

Patients’ transitions between caregivers pose a risk to safety and may trigger adverse events. In addition, patient handoffs occur multiple times a day for each patient, making it critical for ...

The Commonwealth’s largest health system is the first of Kentucky Hospital Association’s members to participate in the statewide I-PASS ‘KHATCH’ Program BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--I-PASS, the gold ...

Increased focus on handoff problems has led to significant improvements, say patient safety leaders. "We've seen many hospitals set up transitional care management protocols. Medicare and private ...

The National Transitions of Care Coalition Advisory Task Force has published a free, downloadable transitions of care checklist. This checklist provides a detailed description of effective patient ...

A significant percentage of resident physicians report that patient handoffs – transfer of responsibility for a hospitalized patient from one resident to another – contributed to incidents in which ...

After auditing 23 surgical cases, researchers found that hand-offs happened in 82.6% of cases, but only 34.4% of critical information was communicated through the exchange. A new surgical hand-off ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio. (Ivanhoe Newswire)- STEMI is the most severe type of heart attack, where every second counts. Now, a newly published study shows that a standardized plan to reduce the time from a ...