Morning handover

Morning handover of on-call issues: opportunities for improvement.

IMPORTANCE Handover is the process of transferring pertinent patient information and clinical responsibility between health care practitioners. Few studies have examined morning handover from the overnight trainee to the daytime team. OBJECTIVE To characterize current morning handover practices in 2 academic medical centers by assessing the frequency of omissions of clinically important overn...

A Daily Morning Structured Handover - Improves Patient Safety?

3rd national audit of Acute Medicine "SAMBA '14: the team@work" Christian Subbe BCU HB Ivan LeJeune Caroline Burford Rahul Mudannayake Aim To define team size and performance for Acute Medical Units in 2014. Method The Society for Acute Medicine's Research Committee organised SAMBA '14 as the third annual audit of AMUs for the 19th of June 2014 [1,2]. Units were invited to submit data about the...

A national survey of medical morning handover report in Australian hospitals.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and format of medical morning handover report (MMHR) in Australian hospitals. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Questionnaire survey faxed to 76 Australian hospitals accredited for basic physician training by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). The survey was conducted in 2005. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Use of MMHR; structure and format of...

Morning Briefing

Morning Briefing

Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll: Two-thirds of Americans say fix Obamacare, don't repeal it. [1] More than half say, get on to other priorities. Has Congress ever changed the Affordable Care Act? Yes, it has and with bipartisan support. A short history. [2] President Trump ratcheted up his pressure on lawmakers to pass a healthcare plan with a threat to end key Obamacare payments and cancel some of ...