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Association of face-to-face handoffs and outcomes of hospitalized internal medicine patients.
April 29, 2015
Schouten WM, Burton C, Jones LKD, et al. J Hosp Med. 2015;10(3):137-41.
This observational study compared face-to-face handoffs—the gold standard—with written handoffs and found no difference in escalation of care, length of stay, hospital mortality, or adverse events as defined by the Global Trigger Tool. These results challenge the current recommendations about handoffs, but larger broader studies are needed to determine the optimal handoff strategy.
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