A quality improvement approach to standardization and sustainability of the hand-off process.

Craig Fryman; Carine Hamo; Siddharth Raghavan; Nirvani Goolsarran

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A quality improvement approach to standardization and sustainability of the hand-off process.

May 31, 2017

Fryman C, Hamo C, Raghavan S, et al. BMJ Qual Improv Rep. 2017;6(1).

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Electronic handoff tools can facilitate information sharing between teams. This quality improvement report reviews the results of an initiative that used plan-do-study-act cycles to assess the integration of the I-PASS handoff process into an electronic medical record system.

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