Nursing handover from ICU to cardiac ward: Standardised tools to reduce safety risks

Australian Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 165-171

  Graan, Sher Michael ^a,b   Botti, Mari ^a,c   Wood, Beverley ^a,c   Redley, Bernice ^a,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EPWORTH HEALTHCARE   (Australia)

^c Epworth Deakin Centre for Clinical Nursing Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Checklist; Clinical handover; Intensive care unit; Patient safety and quality; Standardised framework

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AUDIO RECORDING; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL HANDOVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE CENTER; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVIEW; NURSE; SAFETY; STAFF; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS;

CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING; CHECKLIST; CRITICAL CARE NURSING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT HANDOFF; PATIENT SAFETY;

EID: 84951069638     PISSN: 10367314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aucc.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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