Publications by authors named "Paul Staisiunas"
Background: The most recent iteration of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty-hour regulations includes language mandating handoff education for trainees and assessments of handoff quality by residency training programs. However, there is a lack of validated tools for the assessment of handoff quality and for use in trainee education.
Methods: Faculty at 2 sites (University of Chicago and Yale University) were recruited to participate in a workshop on handoff education.
Background: Increasing frequency of shift-to-shift handoffs coupled with regulatory requirements to evaluate handoff quality make a handoff evaluation tool necessary.
Objective: To develop a handoff evaluation tool.
Design: Tool development.
Background/objectives: To examine the associations between perceived control over sleep, noise levels, sleep duration, and noise complaints in a cohort of hospitalized adults.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: General medicine ward in an academic medical center.
Background: Although peer evaluation can be used to evaluate in-hospital handoffs, few studies have described using this strategy.
Objective: Our objective was to assess feasibility of an online peer handoff evaluation and characterize performance over time among medical interns.
Design: The design was a prospective cohort study.
Background: The increasing fragmentation of healthcare has resulted in more patient handoffs. Many professional groups, including the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education and the Society of Hospital Medicine, have made recommendations for safe and effective handoffs. Despite the two-way nature of handoff communication, the focus of these efforts has largely been on the person giving information.
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