There are a variety of tools that can be used when doing handovers or transitions in care. This is not a comprehensive list of the tools out there in the literature, to say nothing of local home grown tools that people may use. The goal is not to try and point to single tool, rather…
Month: November 2023
Global Elements of Effective Handoffs
Consider a patient who is admitted from the Emergency Department (ED) of your local hospital. Your patient is 73-year-old, has a history of severe coronary artery disease, but currently stable, prostate cancer, and rheumatoid arthritis. He is admitted for pneumonia because of his age, and mild hypoxia requiring oxygen. The first transition occurs when the…