Need for Standardized Sign-out in the Emergency Department: A Survey of Emergency Medicine Residency and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program Directors

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 192-196

  Sinha, Madhumita ^a   Shriki, Jesse ^a   Salness, Rebecca ^a   Blackburn, Paul A ^a  

^a MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency; hand off; sign out; survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STANDARDIZATION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33846543326     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.09.048     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bates D., and Gawande A.A. Patient safety: improving safety with information technology. N Engl J Med 351 (2004) 1822-1824
2. Petersen L.A., Orav E.J., Teich J.M., O'Neil A.C., and Brennan T.A. Using a computerized sign-out program to improve continuity of inpatient care and prevent adverse events. Jt Comm J Qual Improv 24 2 (1998) 77-87
3. Frank G., Lawless S.T., and Steinberg T.H. Improving physician communication through an automated, integrated sign-out system. J Healthc Inf Manag 19 4 (2005) 68-74
4. Cook R.I., Render M., and Woods D.D. Gaps in the continuity of care and progress on patient safety. BMJ 320 (2000) 791-794
5. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. National Patient Safety Goals 2006. Available at: http://www.jointcommission.org/PatientSafety/NationalPatientSafetyGoals. Accessed Jul 22, 2006.
6. Patterson E.S., and Woods D.D. Shift changes, updates, and the on-call model in space shuttle mission control. Computer supported cooperative network. J Collaborative Comput 10 (2001) 317-346
7. Patterson E.S., Roth E.M., Woods D.D., Chow R., and Gomes J.O. Handoff strategies in settings with high consequences for failure: lessons for health care operations. Int J Qual Health Care 16 (2004) 125-132
8. Arora V., Johnson J., Lovinger D., Humphrey H.J., and Meltzer D.O. Communication failures in patient sign-out and suggestions for improvement: a critical incident analysis. Qual Saf Health Care 14 (2005) 401-407
9. Sutcliffe K.M., Lewton E., and Rosenthal M.M. Communication failures: an insidious contributor to medical mishaps. Acad Med 79 (2004) 186-194
10. Moore C., Wisnivesky J., Williams S., and McGinn T. Medical errors related to discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting. J Gen Intern Med 18 (2003) 646-651
11. Horwitz L.I., Krumholz H.M., Green M.L., and Huot S.J. Transfers of patient care between house staff on internal medicine wards: a national survey. Arch Intern Med 166 (2006) 1173-1177
12. Perry S. Transitions in care: studying safety in emergency department signovers. Focus Patient Saf 7 (2004) 1-7
13. Solet D.J., Norvell J.M., Rutan G.H., and Frankel R.M. Lost in translation: challenges and opportunities in physician-to-physician communication during patient handoffs. Acad Med 80 (2005) 1094-1099
14. Stiell A., Forster A.J., Stiell I.G., and Walraven C.V. Prevalence of information gaps in the emergency department and the effect on patient outcomes. Can Med Assoc J 169 (2003) 1023-1028
15. Gandhi T.K. Fumbled handoffs: one dropped ball after another. Ann Intern Med 142 (2005) 352-358
16. Vidyarthi A. Fumbled Handoff. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. March 2004. Available at: =http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/case.aspx?caseID=55. Accessed Jul 22, 2006.
17. Beach C., Croskerry P., and Shapiro M. Profiles in patient safety: emergency care transitions. Acad Emerg Med 10 (2003) 364-367
18. Zwarenstein M., and Reeves S. Working together but apart: barriers and routes to nurse-physician collaboration. Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28 (2002) 242-247 209
19. Luo J., Hales R.E., Hilty D., and Brennan C. Clinical computing: electronic sign-out using a personal digital assistant. Psychiatr Serv 52 (2001) 173-174
20. Van Eaton E.G., Horvath K.D., Lober W.B., Rossini A.J., and Pellegrini C.A. A randomized, controlled trial evaluating the impact of a computerized rounding and sign-out system on continuity of care and resident work hours. J Am Coll Surg 200 (2005) 538-545
21. Van Eaton E.G., Horvath K.D., Lober W.B., and Pellegrini C.A. Organizing the transfer of patient care information: the development of a computerized resident sign-out system. Surgery 136 1 (2004) 5-13