Improving the quality of medical handover on a paediatric ward
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Mona Aslam; Neeraj Nirmal; Molla Imaduddin Ahmed; Afraa Al-Sabbagh
- Source
- British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 79:584-585
- Subject
- Quality management
media_common.quotation_subject
MEDLINE
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
03 medical and health sciences
Patient safety
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Quality (business)
030212 general & internal medicine
media_common
Paediatric patients
Patient Care Team
Medical Audit
business.industry
Communication
Standardized approach
Patient Handoff
Infant
Race Relations
General Medicine
Hospitals, Pediatric
medicine.disease
Quality Improvement
Handover
Infant Care
Continuity of care
Patient Safety
Medical emergency
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1759-7390
1750-8460
Improving communication between health-care professionals is essential for patient safety. This article outlines a quality improvement project carried out to improve the quality of medical handover on a paediatric ward. The project incorporated the use of the SBAR (situation, background, assessment, recommendation) tool and use of a job book to highlight outstanding jobs in the daily handover. The project showed an improvement in the quality of handover and highlighted that a standardized approach to medical handover helped to ensure continuity of care of paediatric patients.