• DOI:10.1177/1541931218621107
Corpus ID: 80720821

Investigating Intraoperative and Intraprofessional Handoffs in Anesthesia

@article{Jurewicz2018InvestigatingIA,
  title={Investigating Intraoperative and Intraprofessional Handoffs in Anesthesia},
  author={Katherina A. Jurewicz and Myrtede C Alfred and David M. Neyens and K. Catchpole and Anjali Joseph and S. Reeves},
  journal={Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting},
  year={2018},
  volume={62},
  pages={469 - 473}
}

• Katherina A. Jurewicz, Myrtede C Alfred, +3 authors S. Reeves
• Published 2018
• Medicine
• Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

Handoffs occur frequently in healthcare systems, and miscommunications and critical omissions within handoffs have been linked to serious medical errors. Handoff quality is a priority of patient safety initiatives across several international organizations. The majority of previous research in handoffs have focused on postoperative handoffs; yet, there is a need to specifically investigate intraoperative handoffs, especially within individual professions or subspecialties. Each subspecialty… Expand

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