Admission handoff communications: clinician's shared understanding of patient severity of illness and problems.
Brannen M, Cameron KA, Adler MD, et al. Admission Handoff Communications. J Patient Saf. 2009;5(4). doi:10.1097/pts.0b013e3181c029e5.
Direct observation of signouts revealed that residents giving and receiving signout generally agreed on a patient's overall severity of illness, but did not agree on prioritization of specific acute problems.