Journal article
The Patient Handoff: A Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
Academic medicine, v 87(4), pp 411-418
01 Apr 2012
PMID: 22361791
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Abstract
In 2010, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education released its resident duty hours restrictions, requiring that faculty monitor their residents' patient handoffs to ensure that residents are competent in handoff communications. Although studies have reported the need to improve the effectiveness of the handoff and a variety of curricula have been suggested and implemented, a common method for teaching and evaluating handoff skills has not been developed. Also in 2010, engineers, informaticians, and physicians interested in patient handoffs attended a symposium in Savannah, Georgia, hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery, entitled Handovers and Handoffs: Collaborating in Turns. As a result of this symposium, a workgroup formed to develop practical and readily implementable educational materials for medical educators involved in teaching patient handoffs to residents. In this article, the result of that yearlong collaboration, the authors aim to provide clarity on the definition of the patient handoff, to review the barriers to performing effective handoffs in academic health centers, to identify available solutions to improve handoffs, and to provide a structured approach to educating residents on handoffs via a curricular blueprint. The authors' blueprint was developed to guide educators in customizing handoff education programs to fit their specific, local needs. Hopefully, it also will provide a starting point for future research into improving the patient handoff. Increasingly complex patient care environments require both innovations in handoff education and improvements in patient care systems to improve continuity of care.
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- Title
- The Patient Handoff: A Comprehensive Curricular Blueprint for Resident Education to Improve Continuity of Care
- Creators
- Max V. Wohlauer - University of DenverVineet M. Arora - University of ChicagoLeora I. Horwitz - Yale UniversityEllen J. Bass - University of VirginiaSean E. Mahar - Baystate HealthIngrid Philibert - Institute of Neurological SciencesHEAR Computer Supported
- Publication Details
- Academic medicine, v 87(4), pp 411-418
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- P30AG21342 NIH/NIA / Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale University School of Medicine ACGME R03HS018278-01 / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; United States Department of Health & Human Services; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality R03HS018278 / AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY; United States Department of Health & Human Services; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality K08 AG038336 / National Institute on Aging; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) K08AG038336 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) American Federation for Aging Research
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000302143200011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84859434359
- Other Identifier
- 991019292135304721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Education, Scientific Disciplines
- Health Care Sciences & Services