title: Defective handoffs reduced by 52%.
abstract: A group of hospitals participating in a program sponsored by The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has succeeded in achieving an average 52% reduction in defective handoffs. Here are some of the discoveries made during the project that impact EDs: The same critical elements should be covered in any transfer, whether it's from the ED to another department or between two providers within the ED. Forms should be standardized so that the giver and receiver of information are expecting to see the same types of information. Information being transferred might include the patient's condition, care, treatment, medications, services, and any recent or anticipated changes in any of these.
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States