Developing an Operating Room-to-Intensive Care Unit Patient Handover Checklist: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design.

This article reports a study aimed at developing and validating an Operating Room-to-ICU Patient Handover checklist. Deficient or absent clinical handovers, or failures to transfer information, responsibility, and accountability can have unwanted consequences for hospitalized patients. Clinical handovers are practiced every day, in many ways, in all institutional health care settings.