Are weekend handovers of adequate quality for the on-call general medical team?

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 536-540

  Pfeffer, Paul E ^a   Nazareth, Dilip ^b   Main, Norman ^c   Hardoon, Sarah ^d   Choudhury, Aklak B ^a  

^a QUEEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WARRINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Handover; Patient safety; Sign out

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TEAM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; SKILL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WEEKEND HANDOVER;

EID: 83755173144     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-6-536     Document Type: Article

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