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 ...

Patient handover—the structured transfer of responsibility and clinical information between healthcare professionals—constitutes a cornerstone of safe, continuous care across settings. It spans ...

Use of a standardized protocol may improve patient handovers and reduce the risk of mortality, according to research presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular ...

The handover of patient information during nursing shift changes is a key area under investigation in a national effort to improve patient safety in hospitals. In one of seven projects funded by the ...

Completely handing a patient off from one anesthesiologist to another during cardiac surgery is associated with significantly higher risks of mortality, as well as longer stays in the ICU and hospital ...

The Royal College of Physicians, based in London, has published a free, downloadable toolkit focusing on patient handovers. The toolkit provides “a framework for standardization of clinical handover ...

Poor clinical handover in hospitals is rendering the system prone to misses and near misses, warn doctors in a letter to this week's BMJ. The introduction of the European Working Time Directive has ...

A "dramatic deterioration" in ambulance handover performance is placing a significant and increasing number of patients at potential risk of harm or even significant harm, a report has said. Northern ...

Ambulance handover times in England have shown signs of improving, but a new report suggested there is still a long way to go before performance targets are reached. An analysis by the Association of ...