Feedback and Assessment Tools for Handoffs: A Systematic Review.

Background: Resident handoff communication skills are essential components of medical education training. There are no previous systematic reviews of feedback and evaluation tools for physician handoffs.

Objective: We performed a systematic review of articles focused on inpatient handoff feedback or assessment tools.

Shift-to-Shift Handoff Effects on Patient Safety and Outcomes.

Multiple health care organizations have identified handoffs as a source of clinical errors; however, few studies have linked handoff interventions to improved patient outcomes. This systematic review of English-language research articles, published January 2008 to May 2015 and focusing on shift-to-shift handoff interventions and patient outcomes, yielded 10 774 unique articles. Twenty-one articles met inclusion criteria, measuring each of the following: patient falls (n = 7), reportable events (n = 6), length of stay (n = 4), mortality (n = 4), code calls (n = 4), medication errors (n = 4), medical errors (n = 3), procedural complications (n = 2), pressure ulcers (n = 2), weekend discharges (n = 2), and nosocomial infections (n = 2).

Evaluating Outcomes of Electronic Tools Supporting Physician Shift-to-Shift Handoffs: A Systematic Review.

Background: Multiple organizations have recognized that handoffs are prone to errors, and there has been an increase in the use of electronic health records and computerized tools in health care.

Objective: This systematic review evaluates the current evidence on the effectiveness of electronic solutions used to support shift-to-shift handoffs.

Methods: We searched the English-language literature for research studies published between January 1, 2008, and September 19, 2014, using National Library of Medicine PubMed, EBSCO CINAHL, OvidSP All Journals, and ProQuest PsycINFO.

Bedside Shift-to-Shift Handoffs: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Multiple institutions identify communication and shift-to-shift handoffs as a source of clinical errors. Conducting handoffs at the bedside has been proposed as a potential solution to improve the quality of communication at change of shift. This article reports a systematic review of English-language research articles, published between January 1, 2008, and October 31, 2014, focused on bedside shift-to-shift handoffs.

Effect of precordial electrocardiographic electrode placement on ST-segment measurement during exercise.

Research protocols often utilize serial exercise testing to examine the efficacy of anti-ischemic therapies. These tests, however, are prone to multiple sources of bias. This investigation sought to determine the influence of varying precordial electrocardiographic (ECG) electrode placement on the detection of exercise-induced ST-segment shifts.

Structure and organization of hip, an operon that affects lethality due to inhibition of peptidoglycan or DNA synthesis.

High-frequency persistence to the lethal effects of inhibition of either DNA or peptidoglycan synthesis, the Hip phenotype, results from mutations at the hip locus of Escherichia coli K-12. The nucleotide sequence of DNA fragments which complement these mutations revealed an operon consisting of a possible regulatory region, including sequences with modest homology to an E. coli promoter, and two open reading frames which are translated both in vitro and in vivo.

The two Xenopus laevis SRC genes are co-expressed and each produces functional pp60src.

The haploid genome of Xenopus laevis contains two src genes, and transcripts from both genes are found in the maternal RNA pool of the oocyte (Steele, R. E. (1985) Nucleic Acids Res.