Improving the quality of medical handover on a paediatric ward.

Br J Hosp Med (Lond)

Consultant Paediatrician, Department of Paediatrics, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough City Hospital, Peterborough.

Published: October 2018

Improving communication between health-care professionals is essential for patient safety. This article outlines a quality improvement project carried out to improve the quality of medical handover on a paediatric ward. The project incorporated the use of the SBAR (situation, background, assessment, recommendation) tool and use of a job book to highlight outstanding jobs in the daily handover. The project showed an improvement in the quality of handover and highlighted that a standardized approach to medical handover helped to ensure continuity of care of paediatric patients.

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