Standardized postoperative handover process improves outcomes in the intensive care unit: A model for operational sustainability and improved team performance

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2109-2115

  Agarwal, Hemant S ^a   Saville, Benjamin R ^b   Slayton, Jennifer M ^a   Donahue, Brian S ^a   Daves, Suanne ^a   Christian, Karla G ^a   Bichell, David P ^a   Harris, Zena L ^a  

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; communication; handover; intensive care unit; outcomes; postoperative care

Indexed keywords

EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTUBATION; HANDOVER; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIKERT SCALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT TRANSFER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84862730999     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182514bab     Document Type: Review

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