I-CATCH: A Novel Bundle to Improve Postcall Morning Handoffs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Conducting postcall morning handoffs using a resident handoff bundle such as I-PASS can prove challenging. This may delay recognizing and acting on clinically important patient issues that arose overnight.

Objective

We developed and implemented the I-CATCH morning handoff bundle and evaluated its impact on the proportion of overnight patient issues handed off from the on-call resident to the daytime team.

Methods

We evaluated the I-CATCH (Identify patient; Characterize situation; Action-what was done overnight?; To do for the team in the morning; Confirm the Handoff) handoff bundle from November 2015 to May 2016 on general internal medicine wards at 1 academic teaching hospital. The bundle entailed staff/resident tr

SUBMITTER: Zipursky JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6314354 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature