Effectiveness of different nursing handover styles for ensuring continuity of information in hospitalised patients

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Smeulers, Marian ^a   Lucas, Cees ^a   Vermeulen, Hester ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL HANDOVER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF NURSING CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; NURSING PROCESS;

HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NURSING PROCESS; PATIENT HANDOFF;

EID: 84907479885     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009979.pub2     Document Type: Review

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