AHRQ Patient Safety Network ► Managing competing organizational priorities in clinical handover across organizational boundaries.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



Managing competing organizational priorities in clinical handover across organizational boundaries.

Sujan MA, Chessum P, Rudd M, et al. J Health Serv Res Pol. 2015;20(suppl 1):s17-s25.

Patient handoffs are a major challenge for patient safety, especially when patients move between different units or organizations. Analysis of 270 handoffs between ambulances to emergency departments (EDs) and EDs to inpatient units uncovered many tensions and themes, such as how competing patient flow priorities can impact the quality of handoffs.

PubMed citation 
Available at 

Related Resources

BOOK/REPORT

The Silent Treatment: Why Safety Tools and Checklists Aren't Enough to Save Lives.

Maxfield D, Grenny J, Lavandero R, Groah L. Provo, UT: VitalSmarts; 2011.

REVIEW

Hospital do-not-resuscitate orders: why they have failed and how to fix them.

Yuen JK, Reid MC, Fetters MD. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26:791-797.

STUDY

Improving teamwork on general medical units: when teams do not work face-to-face.

McComb SA, Henneman EA, Hinchey KT, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012;38:471-478.

STUDY

Stakeholder perspectives on handovers between hospital staff and general practitioners: an evaluation through the microsystems lens.

Göbel B, Zwart D, Hesselink G, Pijnenborg L, Barach P, Kalkman C, Johnson JK. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:i106-i113.

View all related resources...