The role of dynamic trade-offs in creating safety—a qualitative study of handover across care boundaries in emergency care.

Mark Sujan; Peter Spurgeon; Matthew Cooke

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The role of dynamic trade-offs in creating safety—a qualitative study of handover across care boundaries in emergency care.

October 28, 2015

Sujan M, Spurgeon P, Cooke M. Reliab Eng Syst Saf. 2015;141.

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According to this human factors study, handoff practices in emergency medicine vary depending on physicians' competing demands. The authors suggest that these dynamic trade-offs in which handoff practices are adjusted for specific situations actually enhance safety, in contrast to recent work promoting standardized handoff communication.

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