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Back to Basics: Patient Care Transitions
Author(s) -
Spruce Lisa
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/j.aorn.2016.08.014
Subject(s) - harm , patient safety , health care , protocol (science) , reliability (semiconductor) , process (computing) , patient care , medical emergency , quality (philosophy) , medicine , nursing , psychology , computer science , alternative medicine , social psychology , power (physics) , philosophy , physics , epistemology , pathology , quantum mechanics , economics , economic growth , operating system
One of the most critical aspects of high‐quality patient care is communication. If a breakdown in communication occurs, vital patient information may be overlooked and not communicated at the patient hand over. Breakdowns in communication contribute to a majority of errors in health care. Implementing a standardized hand‐over protocol serves to improve the safety and reliability of this process and help decrease the risk of patient harm. This Back to Basics article highlights the steps to a successful hand over and provides strategies for developing an effective standardized communication process to reduce health care errors.