Physician-physician handover from acute care to rehabilitation setting: A scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this scoping review is to map the existing evidence that describes strategies to improve handover from the acute care to rehabilitation settings.

Introduction

Poor handover processes have been associated with preventable errors, delays in care, and adverse patient outcomes. Effective physician-to-physician handover during transitions of care is critical to ensuring patient safety and optimizing clinical outcomes. Physician handover between acute and rehabilitation care settings is particularly complicated, as it requires transferring detailed and timely information for continuity of care for medically and/or surgically complex patients between components of healthcare systems with different cultures and goals of care. Despite numerous studies being p

SUBMITTER: Cho S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12700418 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature