The effect of a checklist on the quality of patient handover from the operating room to the intensive care unit: A randomized controlled trial

The Impact of Checklists on Inpatient Safety Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

“…Six of the studies were conducted in at least 1teaching hospital. [30][31][32][33][34][35] The studies varied in target populations for both the checklist user and patients. The outcomes reported varied; 3 studies examined 30-day mortality, 21,30,36 4 studies examined hospital length of stay, 21,30,33,36 and 2 studies reported user compliance with the checklist.…”

“…21,31 Five of the studies reported patient outcomes, 21,30,33,35,36 and 5 studies reported provider-level outcomes related to patient safety (eg, compliance with checklist items such as communication of medications, isolation precautions, etc.). [31][32][33][34]37 Description of Checklists Supplementary File 4 (Table 3) provides a detailed breakdown of the checklists' purpose and components. Six of the checklists were designed to directly reduce patient safety events, 21,30,33,[35][36][37] whereas 3 of the checklists were designed to indirectly reduce patient safety events by increasing compliance with processes of care.…”

Improving clinical handover in a paediatric ward: implications for nursing management

“…The Safety Checklist concept has been used in surgical settings to reduce medical error for many years (Clark et al 2012), and in our project the safety checks at handover such as the correct identification of the patient, their medication charts, oxygen flow rates, intravenous fluids and their infusion rates increased in frequency. As in this project, the use of checklists in handover has also been found to improve the quality and quantity of transmitted information in medical handover (Salzwedel et al 2016).…”

“…As in this project, the use of checklists in handover has also been found to improve the quality and quantity of transmitted information in medical handover (Salzwedel et al . ).…”

Handover checklist: testing a standardization process in an Italian hospital

“…The instrument is a standardized checklist which increases the quantity and the quality of transmitted medical information 10. The perception of clinicians on applicability of these standardized tools has been also investigated to evaluate the feasibility of the standard use of the tool.…”