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Postoperative handover: problems, pitfalls, and prevention of error.

Kamal Nagpal1, Sonal Arora, May Abboudi

  • 1Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Centre for Patient Safety and Surgical Quality, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

Annals of Surgery
|May 28, 2010
PubMed
Summary

Postoperative handover communication often fails due to missing information. A new, validated protocol standardizes this process, improving patient care quality and preventing critical data omissions.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Communication
  • Patient Safety
  • Surgical Care

Background:

  • Effective clinical handover is crucial for patient care continuity.
  • Surgical unit handovers are frequently informal, leading to potential communication gaps.
  • Understanding these issues is key to developing standardized protocols.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Identify communication and information transfer problems in postoperative handover.
  • Develop and validate a novel protocol to standardize postoperative communication.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative semistructured interviews with 18 healthcare professionals to identify handover issues and solutions.
  • Emergent theme analysis of transcribed interviews.
  • Delphi method with 50 surgical professionals to validate the protocol.

Main Results:

  • Incomplete handovers were identified as a major cause of information transfer failures.
  • Consensus was reached that a standardized protocol is essential for preventing omissions of critical information.
  • A 21-item handover protocol was developed and validated, covering patient-specific, surgical, and anesthetic information.

Conclusions:

  • Postoperative handover is currently informal, unstructured, and inconsistent, leading to incomplete information transfer.
  • A validated handover protocol, based on end-user input, was successfully developed.
  • Implementing this protocol can standardize postoperative handover and enhance patient care quality.