Clinical handover incident reporting in one UK general hospital.

Cinzia Pezzolesi; Fabrizio Schifano; John Pickles; William Randell; Zakar Hussain; Helen Muir; Soraya Dhillon

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Clinical handover incident reporting in one UK general hospital.

December 29, 2014

Pezzolesi C, Schifano F, Pickles J, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2010;22(5):396-401.

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Analysis of incident reports revealed a lower than expected number of reports involving handoffs, most of which did not result in patient harm.

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