Enhancing the Quality of the Anesthesia to Postanesthesia Care Unit Patient Transfer Through Use of an Electronic Medical Record-Based Handoff Tool.

CONCLUSIONS: The use of a standardized anesthesia to PACU EMR-based handoff checklist significantly increased the percent of accurate information transferred without considerably affecting the duration of the PACU handoff process. PMID: 30528308 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30528308?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing - December 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Halladay ML, Thompson JA, Vacchiano CA Tags: J Perianesth Nurs Source Type: research

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