Developing the junior doctor handover database: improving patient safety and fluidity of staff transition
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ruth Yates; Jonathan Kentley; Laura Davis; Florence Chamberlain; Dhanupriya Sivapathsuntharam
- Source
- Future hospital journal. 3(Suppl 2)
- Subject
- business.industry
education
Newly qualified
Foundation (evidence)
Health Service and Policy
Baseline data
medicine.disease
Teaching hospital
Patient safety
Handover
Cohort
Medicine
Medical emergency
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2055-3323
To implement a tool designed to improve handover between clinical rotations to aid junior doctors in a large urban teaching hospital. To improve junior doctors’ ability to conduct their day-to-day tasks and to ameliorate the potential patient safety issues when newly qualified doctors commence foundation training each August. Baseline data were obtained from the 2013–14 cohort of foundation doctors (n = 54) using a …