ICU Attending Handoff Practices: Results From a National Survey of Academic Intensivists.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize intensivist handoff practices and expectations and to explore perceptions of the patient safety implications of attending handoffs.

Design

Cross-sectional electronic survey administered in 2014.

Setting

One hundred sixty-nine U.S. hospitals with critical care training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Subjects

Academic intensivists were recruited via e-mail invitation from a database of 1,712 eligible academic intensivists.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Six hundred sixty-one intensivists completed the survey (completion rate, 38.6%). Responses were received from at least one individual at 147 of 169 unique hospitals (87.0%) represented in the study databa

SUBMITTER: Lane-Fall MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4792768 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature