A New Tool to Assess Clinician Experience With Patient Care Transitions

Conclusions: Overall, the survey was feasible to implement and built to optimize content, construct, and response process validity. Survey results drove practical improvement work, such as informing a verbal transfer protocol to improve nursing preparedness to receive patients on general medicine units. As a practical tool, the survey and its results can help hospital administrators to focus on categories of transfer activities that are most problematic for clinicians and to track trends for quality improvement.
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - Category: Health Management Tags: Methods and Instruments Source Type: research