A call to bridge across silos during care transitions.

Day of discharge does not impact hospital readmission after major cardiac surgery.

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Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care.

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Impact of the communication and patient hand-off tool SBAR on patient safety: a systematic review.

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Assessment of the safety of discharging select patients directly home from the intensive care unit: a multicenter population-based cohort study.

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Developing standardized "receiver-driven" handoffs between referring providers and the emergency department: results of a multidisciplinary needs assessment.

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Evaluating the implementation of Project Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) in five Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals.

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Handoffs and Signouts

Readmissions and Adverse Events After Discharge

Situation, background, assessment, recommendation (SBAR) communication tool for handoff in health care—a narrative review.

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Defining minimum necessary anticoagulation-related communication at discharge: Consensus of the Care Transitions Task Force of the New York State Anticoagulation Coalition.

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I-PASS handoff program: use of a campaign to effect transformational change.

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Information management goals and process failures during home visits for middle-aged and older adults receiving skilled home healthcare services after hospital discharge: a multisite, qualitative study.

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Mind the overlap: how system problems contribute to cognitive failure and diagnostic errors.

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Ssssh for handover: protected medical handover; optimising quality and prioritising safety—a regional initiative.

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Diagnostic discordance, health information exchange, and inter-hospital transfer outcomes: a population study.

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Preparing clinicians for transitioning patients across care settings and into the home through simulation.

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Developing a standard handoff process for operating room–to-ICU transitions: multidisciplinary clinician perspectives from the Handoffs and Transitions in Critical Care (HATRICC) study.

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A standardized handoff simulation promotes recovery from auditory distractions in resident physicians.

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Structured patient handoff on an internal medicine ward: a cluster randomized control trial.

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Challenges in communication from referring clinicians to pathologists in the electronic health record era.

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