ED Handoffs: Observed Practices and Communication Errors

To Err Is Human

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Communication Failures: An Insidious Contributor to Medical Mishaps

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Lost in Translation: Challenges and Opportunities in Physician-to-Physician Communication During Patient Handoffs

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Handoff strategies in settings with high consequences for failure: lessons for health care operations

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The multitasking clinician: Decision-making and cognitive demand during and after team handoffs in emergency care

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Medical Errors Involving Trainees: A Study of Closed Malpractice Claims From 5 Insurers

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Consequences of Inadequate Sign-out for Patient Care

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A Model for Building a Standardized Hand-off Protocol

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Dropping the Baton: A Qualitative Analysis of Failures During the Transition From Emergency Department to Inpatient Care

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Handoffs Causing Patient Harm: A Survey of Medical and Surgical House Staff

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Residents Report on Adverse Events and Their Causes

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Communicating in the "Gray Zone": Perceptions about Emergency Physician–hospitalist Handoffs and Patient Safety

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Adequacy of information transferred at resident sign-out (inhospital handover of care): a prospective survey

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Surgeon Information Transfer and Communication

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Development and Implementation of an Oral Sign-out Skills Curriculum

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Simple Standardized Patient Handoff System that Increases Accuracy and Completeness

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Improving Handoff Communications in Critical Care*

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Medicine-related problems resulting in emergency department visits

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Enhancing Patient Safety

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Need for Standardized Sign-out in the Emergency Department: A Survey of Emergency Medicine Residency and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program Directors

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Patient Safety Solutions

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Standardized Sign-Out Reduces Intern Perception of Medical Errors on the General Internal Medicine Ward

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The Effect of Clinical Experience on the Error Rate of Emergency Physicians

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SynopSIS: Integrating physician sign‐out with the electronic medical record

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Leveraging Computerized Sign-Out to Increase Error Reporting and Addressing Patient Safety in Graduate Medical Education

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Handoffs in the Era of Duty Hours Reform: A Focused Review and Strategy to Address Changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements

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Standardizing Postoperative PICU Handovers Improves Handover Metrics and Patient Outcomes

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(Re)Introducing Communication Competence to the Health Professions

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Handoffs: Transitions of Care for Children in the Emergency Department

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Communication of Vital Signs at Emergency Department Handoff: Opportunities for Improvement

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Factors that contribute to physician variability in decisions to limit life support in the ICU: a qualitative study

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Improving Interunit Transitions of Care Between Emergency Physicians and Hospital Medicine Physicians: A Conceptual Approach

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I’m Clear, You’re Clear, We’re All Clear

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Interunit handoffs from emergency department to inpatient care: A cross‐sectional survey of physicians at a university medical center

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Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting

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Chart biopsy: an emerging medical practice enabled by electronic health records and its impacts on emergency department–inpatient admission handoffs

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The Role of Patients’ Stories in Emergency Medicine Triage

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Culture of Safety

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SOUND

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Text Mining Tutorial

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Characteristics and determinants of high-risk unscheduled return visits to the emergency department

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I-PASS Handoff Curriculum: Faculty Observation Tools

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Handoff communication in intensive care: links with patient safety

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COMMUNICATION NOISE DURING THE NURSING TEAM HANDOVER IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

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Handoffs and Teamwork: A Framework for Care Transition Communication

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Waterfalls and Handoffs: A Novel Physician Staffing Model to Decrease Handoffs in a Pediatric Emergency Department

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Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting

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Use of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to Improve Emergency Department Handoff Processes

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A Model for Electronic Handoff Between the Emergency Department and Inpatient Units

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ICU Attending Handoff Practices

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Development and implementation of a standardised emergency department intershift handover tool to improve physician communication

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An Algorithm for Transition of Care in the Emergency Department

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Transition of Care Practices from Emergency Department to Inpatient: Survey Data and Development of Algorithm

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Resident to Resident Handoffs in the Emergency Department: An Observational Study

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Learning to Work Together Through Talk: Continuing Professional Development in Medicine

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Collaborating—or “Selling” Patients? A Conceptual Framework for Emergency Department–to-Inpatient Handoff Negotiations

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Transition of Care from the Emergency Department to the Outpatient Setting: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

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Admission of medical patients from the emergency department: An assessment of the attitudes, perspectives and practices of internal medicine and emergency medicine trainees

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Standardized Reporting System Use During Handoffs Reduces Patient Length of Stay in the Emergency Department

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Teaching CONSULT: Consultation with Novel Methods and Simulation for UME Longitudinal Training.

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Developing an Evidence-Based Nursing Handover Standard for a Multi-Site Public Hospital in Switzerland: Protocol for a Web-Based, Modified Delphi Study

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A Survey of Handoff Practices in Emergency Medicine

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It Takes Two to Tango: Improving Patient Referrals from the Emergency Department to Inpatient Clinicians.

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Receiving care providers' role during patient handover

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The Taxonomy of Emergency Department Consultations—Results of an Expert Consensus Panel

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Communication Strategies for Better Care of Older Individuals in the Emergency Department

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The Effect of Signed-Out Emergency Department Patients on Resident Productivity

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Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting

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Inefficiencies and vulnerabilities of telephone-based communication between U. S. poison control centers and emergency departments

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Emergency Physicians’ Workstation Design: An Observational Study of Interruptions and Perception of Collaboration During Shift-End Handoffs

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Interfacility Transfer and Admission to PICUs in the United States: Survey of Referral Communications in 2023

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Overlapping shifts to improve patient safety and patient flow in emergency departments

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Emergency Physician Awareness of Prehospital Procedures and Medications

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TRACEing the roots: A diagnostic “Tool for Retrospective Analysis of Critical Events”

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Quality of Handoffs in Community Pharmacies

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Toward Safer Diagnoses: A SEIPS-Based Narrative Review of Diagnostic Errors

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Forecasting Patient Arrivals and Optimizing Physician Shift Scheduling in Emergency Departments

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Physician Shift Scheduling to Improve Patient Safety and Patient Flow in the Emergency Department

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Patient Care Management for Physicians: Reducing Handoffs in the ED

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So Many Ways to Be Wrong: Completeness and Accuracy in a Prospective Study of OR-to-ICU Handoff Standardization

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Improved Accuracy and Quality of Information During Emergency Department Care Transitions

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Standardized evaluation of hand‐off documentation of ICU boarders in the emergency department

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Perceptions of Emergency Department Triage Nurses About Prehospital Emergency Rescuers in Italy: A Latent Threat to Clinical Handover

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Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting

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The Effects of Implementing a “Waterfall” Emergency Physician Attending Schedule

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Emergency Medical Team Coordination in Mass Casualty Incidents: A study of the Los Angeles Emergency Medical System

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Multilevel Communication Barriers and Promotion of High-Quality Communication in PICU*

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