Standardized evaluation of hand‐off documentation of ICU boarders in the emergency department
Joshua Kolikof,
Daniel Shaw,
Bryan Stenson
et al.
Abstract:ObjectiveThe boarding of ICU patients in the emergency department (ED) represents a considerable risk to patient safety. This study aims to describe the generation of a rubric to ensure the fidelity of vital, written hand‐off between ED teams.MethodsWe performed a mixed methods design to develop a scoring rubric to evaluate written hand‐off communication of medical ICU boarders between ED teams during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The primary outcome was the quality of the written hand‐off as agreed upon by the inter… Show more
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