BACKGROUND Clinical handover is a necessary process for the continuation of safe patient care; however, deficiencies in the handover process can introduce error. While the number of handover studies increases, few have validated implemented improvements with repeated audit. OBJECTIVE To improve the morning handover round on a busy critical care unit and assess sustainability of improvement th...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at examining team communication during postoperative handover and its relationship to clinicians' self-ratings of handover quality. BACKGROUND Adverse events can often be traced back to inadequate communication during patient handover. Research and improvement efforts have mostly focused on the information transfer function of patient handover. However, the spec...

In the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), the existing host-based handover scheme tends to induce large handover delays and packet loss rates. To deal with this problem, we are proposing a network-based handover scheme for HIP in the mobile networks, in which the access routers of the mobile node will establish a handover tunnel and will perform the route optimization for data transmission. We also ...

An optimized fast vertical inter-mobility anchor point (MAP) handover scheme for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) is proposed for heterogeneous wireless access networks. Two existing non-optimized vertical handover schemes – the simple vertical inter-MAP handover for HMIPv6 (SVH6) and fast vertical inter-MAP handover for HMIPv6 (FVH6) – assisted by existing hierarchical handover and fast hando...

Abstract Soft handover is one of the key features in UMTS networks. For a sophisticated network planning it is necessary to understand the influence of soft handover on the capacity and coverage of UMTS systems which is expressed by the soft handover gain. In this paper we derive a method for computing interference distributions for UMTS networks with and without soft handover. Thus, we are abl...

Considering Fading Effects for Vertical Handover in Heterogenous Wireless Networks Over the years, vertical handover has attracted the interest of numerous researchers. Despite the attractive benefits of integrating different wireless platforms, mobile users are confronted with the issue of detrimental handover. As a mobile node (MN) moves within a heterogeneous environment, satisfactory qualit...

Handovers are a specific kind of multidisciplinary team meeting. Shift handovers and transfers are both regular features of hospital work but there is currently great variation in how such handovers are conducted, presenting a challenging for those seeking to develop technology to support handover. This paper presents the ConStratO model of handover, which captures aspects of the context that i...

Clinical Handover remains one of the most perilous procedures in medicine (1). Weekend handover has emerged as a key area of concern with high variability in handover processes across hospitals (1,2,4, 5-10). Studying weekend handover processes within medicine at an acute teaching hospital revealed huge variability in documented content and structure. A total of 12 different pro formas were in ...

CDMA cellular networks support soft handover, which guarantees the continuity of wireless services and enhanced communication quality. Cellular networks performance depends upon Soft handover parameters. In this paper, we have shown the effect of soft handover parameters on the performance of CDMA cellular networks. We consider HYST_ ADD and HYST_ DROP as the Soft handover parameters. A very us...