Ensuring Effective Care Transition Communication: Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record-Based Tool for Improved Cancer Treatment Handoffs Between Clinic and Infusion Nurses.

CONCLUSION:: Multidisciplinary stakeholders guided the development and implementation of a standard handoff process and an EMR-based tool to optimize communication between nurses during patient transition. The intervention was associated with a reduction in the proportion of medication errors as the result of ineffective handoffs. In addition, the intervention improved communication between nurses. PMID: 30946643 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: JOP - April 3, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Pandya C, Clarke T, Scarsella E, Alongi A, Amport SB, Hamel L, Dougherty D Tags: J Oncol Pract Source Type: research