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Handoff strategies in settings with high consequences for failure: Lessons for health care operations
Patterson ES, Roth EM, Woods DD, Chow R, Orlando Gomes J. Handoff strategies in settings with high consequences for failure: Lessons for health care operations. Int J Qual Health Care. 2004;16(2):125-132.
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Friesen MA, White SV, Byers JF. Handoffs: Implications for nurses. In: Hughes RG, ed. Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008; Chapter 34:1-48. AHRQ Publication no. 08-0043. Available at http://www.ahrq. gov/qual/nurseshdbk/. Accessed October 20, 2009.
Improving handoff communications in critical care: Utilizing simulation-based training toward process improvement in managing patient risk
Berkenstadt H, Haviv Y, Tuval A, et al. Improving handoff communications in critical care: Utilizing simulation-based training toward process improvement in managing patient risk. Chest. 2008;134(1):158-162.
Commemorative Edition. Upper Saddle River New Jersey: Prentice Hall Health
Benner P. From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice. Commemorative Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Health; 2001.
Strategies to improve hand-off communication: Implementing a process to resolve questions. Available at Accessed November 25, 2005
Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety. Strategies to improve hand-off communication: Implementing a process to resolve questions. 2005. Available at http://www. jcipatientsafety.org/15274/. Accessed November 25, 2009.
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. 2005. Available at Accessed January 20
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. AACN standards for establishing and sustaining healthy work environments: A journey to excellence. 2005. Available at http://www.aacn.org/ aacn/pubpolcy.nsf/Files/HWEStandards/ file/HWEStandards. pdf. Accessed January 20, 2010.
