Safe handover in psychiatry: is it time to set standards?

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Safe handover in psychiatry: is it time to set standards?

August 2, 2006

Gulati G.

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The investigators asked National Health Service consultants and house officers what they would consider an ideal handoff in psychiatric care. They found that practitioners preferred written and/or face-to-face handoffs.

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