Effect of Standardized Handoff Curriculum on Improved Clinician Preparedness in the Intensive Care Unit: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinician miscommunication contributes to an estimated 250 000 deaths in US hospitals per year. Efforts to standardize handoff communication may reduce errors and improve patient safety.

Objective

To determine the effect of a standardized handoff curriculum, UW-IPASS, on interclinician communication and patient outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized stepped-wedge randomized clinical trial was conducted from October 2015 to May 2016 at 8 medical and surgical intensive care units at 2 hospital systems within an academic tertiary referral center. Participants included residents, fellows, advance-practice clinicians, and attending physicians (n = 106 clinicians, with 1488 handoff events over 8 months) and data were collected from da

SUBMITTER: Parent B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5875375 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature