Hand offs--a link to improving patient safety

MeSH terms

• Communication*
• Continuity of Patient Care / organization & administration*
• Goals
• Humans
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• Medical Errors / methods
• Medical Errors / nursing
• Medical Errors / prevention & control*
• Nursing Audit / organization & administration
• Operating Room Nursing / organization & administration*
• Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / organization & administration
• Patient Care Planning / organization & administration
• Safety Management / organization & administration*
• Time Factors
• Total Quality Management / organization & administration*
• United States