Search Tag: Handover

ICU Management

2023 06 Dec

Checklists are cognitive aids that ensure task completion, enhance adherence to best practices, and prevent errors. In the complex environment of the ICU, checklists have been adopted to improve leadership, team performance, and patient outcomes. While research over the past two decades supports the efficacy of specific ICU checklists, the diverse...Read more

Executive Health Management

2016 18 Oct

  Sue Schade, former CIO at University Hospitals has shared her experience of the handover of her position to a new director with key insights into the rare chance to observe another C-Suite member in action. “…we all network regularly at CHIME and other conferences. We learn from each other on topical webinars. And we pick each other’s brains ….about...Read more

ICU Management

2016 11 Mar

A standardised checklist improved the quantity and quality of information shared at handover from the operating room to the ICU, in a randomised controlled trial of 121 handovers, published in the Journal of Critical Care , the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine. Cornelie Salzwedel, MD, and colleagues...Read more