Nurses' Versus Physicians' Perceptions of the Bedside Handover Practice in the Intensive Care Unit: An Egyptian Prospective, Comparative Study.

This article reports a prospective, comparative study using a semistructured interview technique, to compare the perceptions of nursing professionals and physicians about the bedside handover practice, in intensive care units (ICUs). Clinical handovers are practiced every day, in many ways, in all institutional health care settings. Despite increasing demand for structured processes to guide clinical handovers, the perception may differ between nurses and physicians, particularly in the ICU.