I-PASS checklist: a powerful tool for patient handoffs. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

I-PASS checklist: a powerful tool for patient handoffs. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Newspaper/Magazine Article
 
• Published October 2018

I-PASS checklist: a powerful tool for patient handoffs.

Peeples L. Pharmacy Practice News. October 10, 2018.

Structured handoffs can reduce communication problems that contribute to medical error. This magazine article reports on how I-PASS implementation can help enhance the quality and completeness of handoffs, highlights the need for pharmacists to be more engaged in handoff improvement, and offers insights for enhancing their role in the process. In a past PSNet interview, Dr. Amy Starmer discussed the implementation and findings of the landmark I-PASS study.

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