MedE-Handover: Development of an electronic handover system to improve the safety and reliability of weekend handover on medical wards in a major acute teaching hospital | Zendy

Charlotte Strzelecki | Zendy; Rajit Khosla | Zendy

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MedE-Handover: Development of an electronic handover system to improve the safety and reliability of weekend handover on medical wards in a major acute teaching hospital

Author(s) -

Charlotte Strzelecki,

Rajit Khosla

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

future healthcare journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2514-6653

pISSN - 2514-6645

DOI - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s75

Subject(s) - handover , reliability (semiconductor) , medicine , medical emergency , patient safety , computer science , teaching hospital , emergency medicine , computer network , family medicine , health care , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , economic growth

This project aimed to develop a robust and effective handover system to standardise the transfer of information between wards and out-of-hours clinicians, thus improving continuity of care and patient safety on medical wards.Electronic handover tools have been advocated as a potential strategy for enhancing the quality of handover. This project saw the design of a locally peer-reviewed Microsoft Excel database entitled ‘MedE-Handover’ which included scripts allowing semi-automation and standardisation of handover data. Replacing uncoordinated handwritten notes previously compiled separately by …

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