Improving emergency department medical clinical handover: Barriers at the bedside

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 297-302

  Marmor, Gerrard Oren ^a,b   Li, Michael Yonghong ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

clinical handover; communication; ED; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL HANDOVER; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDIZATION; BENCHMARKING; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BENCHMARKING; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PATIENT HANDOFF; PATIENT SAFETY;

EID: 85016610689     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12768     Document Type: Article

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