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Postoperative handover: problems, pitfalls, and prevention of error. Classic icon
Nagpal K, Arora S, Abboudi M, et al. Ann Surg. 2010;252:171-176.

This qualitative study interviewed 18 providers and found that postoperative handovers are informal, unstructured, and fraught with inconsistent and incomplete information transfer. The authors share a handover protocol that was developed and validated to improve the process.
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