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Quality Improvement in Handover of General Internal Medicine In-patients

NCT01796756 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1168

Last updated 2016-01-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Miscommunication during patient handover can jeopardize patient safety and is the focus of Quality Improvement initiatives by many organizations. It is widely recognized that such miscommunication is preventable using a number of strategies identified in the literature.

Currently, there is no formal handover process of General Internal Medicine in-patients, otherwise known as the Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU) at Vancouver General Hospital, which is a major patient safety concern. This project will implement a formal handover program and evaluate whether there are changes in resident satisfaction with handover, but more importantly, whether the investigators can improve patient outcomes.

Conditions

  • Quality Improvement in Patient Handoff

Interventions

OTHER

Handover program

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Medical Protective Association

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Penny Tam, BSc, MD · Vancouver General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-11-30
Completion
2015-11-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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