A surgical checklist can improve communication and reduce potential errors during patient handoffs, Medscape reports. The protocol during the shift change encourages physicians to discuss the ...

To strengthen the patient handoff process from acute to postacute care, Cleveland Clinic created a new discharge checklist to improve discharge summaries and medication reconciliation.

Gather baseline data on handoff quality indicators, establish a quality improvement plan and organize items for a new protocol and checklist. 2. Launching. Educate providers on the new protocol and ...

Checklists are simple and effective tools for minimizing medical errors and bolstering patient safety. According to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, communication errors between ...

These checklists can include major diagnosis; recent procedures; medications; names and numbers for all preceding caregivers; who received the patient as a handoff; and all pending laboratory ...

Implementation of handoff protocols, as a specialized form of checklist for the transfer of care, has led to a decrease in technical errors and verbal omissions in various perioperative settings ...

Checklists have already improved patient safety in intensive care units and operating rooms. Some centers have created handoff checklists too to ensure crucial items (such as a patient’s code ...

While nurses can't completely control patient flow, there are several things they can do to improve bed availability and reduce length of stay, according to a blog post from TeleTracking Technologies.

Moving toward a gold standard in patient handoff protocols. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 11 / 161101133646.htm ...

There are plenty of resources to help physicians and hospitals to improve communication about handoffs. One method is as simple as a read-back from your colleague to make sure that you're on the ...

Boston Children's Hospital has developed a program to standardize handoffs and protect against haphazard lapses that could lead to safety events and patient harm. And it also developed a handy ...

Lisa Romano, RN, MSN, senior vice president and CNO of TeleTracking Technologies, shared a checklist for nurses to optimize patient flow on TeleTracking's blog. Here is the nine-item checklist: 1 ...