Thursday 26 November 2015

Improving the Quality of Weekend Medical Handover at a London Teaching Hospital

"A new weekend handover pro forma modelled on RCP guidance can improve the quality of information provided to the weekend team. This can help the on-call team to manage the weekend more effectively and safely. A Friday WR [ward round] sheet can also improve the availability of thorough patient summaries in the notes in the event that someone needs to be reviewed unexpectedly over the weekend."

"Chase CRP", "Review patient": Improving the Quality of Weekend Medical Handover at a London Teaching Hospital
A Saifuddin, L Magee, R Barrett
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u201656.w1919

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