Patient handover: Time for a change?

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 141-147

  Jenkin, Annie ^a   Abelson Mitchell, Nadine ^a   Cooper, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Patient handover; Patient report forms

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL STAFF; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMBULANCES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34548013306     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aaen.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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