Abstract Background: In 2006, the Joint Commission required all health care providers to “implement a standardized approach to patient hand-offs”. Problem: At our institution, we identified gaps in post-surgical patient… Click to show full abstract
Abstract Background: In 2006, the Joint Commission required all health care providers to “implement a standardized approach to patient hand-offs”. Problem: At our institution, we identified gaps in post-surgical patient hand-offs which included incomplete transfer of information and inadequate communication between the medical and surgical teams. This resulted in a high level of anxiety, frequent paging and at times, delay in patient care. Methods: We distributed a …
               
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