Improving handover of patient care using a new weekend proforma with a focus on ceiling of care.

ABSTRACT: Patient handover is paramount for effective patient care and is often poorly documented or incomplete. North Bristol NHS Trust weekend handover proformas identify medical patients requiring weekend review. Many patients seen during on-call shifts are not handed over. Our aim was to develop Friday ward round proforma sheets for medical patients, to encourage clear documentation of management plans in order to improve handover of important information, particularly ceiling of care decisions. Questionnaires were completed by F1 doctors regarding current handover systems. Baseline data collected by on-call F1s included time of understanding a patient's ceiling of care decision, and difficulty of comprehension of medical notes. Repeat data were collected with novel proformas in situ. Multiple c

SUBMITTER: Akhunbay-Fudge CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4949620 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature