TY - GEN
T1 - Patient handoff quality and safety in China
T2 - 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2017
AU - Gu, X.
AU - Liu, H.
AU - Itoh, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was in part supported by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (No. 15 K16291), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. We are grateful to health care professionals for insightful discussions and comments. We also thank health care providers who participated in our survey.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This study extracted factors for quality evaluation of between-unit handoffs, and explored crucial characteristics of unit and shift handoffs in Chinese health care. A survey on professional views of patient handoffs was conducted, collecting 276 responses. A five-dimensional structure forming performance assessment was acquired for unit handoffs. Based on the structure, Chinese health care professionals put a stress on patient involvement but stated extremely severe organizational conflicts. Nurses exhibited significantly higher acknowledgment than physicians and they generally evaluated quality of shift handoffs better than that of unit handoffs. In addition, health care professionals perceived that information were less sufficiently transferred when receiving patients than sending. In particular, they were likely to recognize that a lack of required information occurred more frequently when receiving patients from emergency department, ambulance and other hospitals. Comparing to Japanese nurse views, Chinese nurses exhibited significantly higher patient handoff performance in their own units and hospitals.
AB - This study extracted factors for quality evaluation of between-unit handoffs, and explored crucial characteristics of unit and shift handoffs in Chinese health care. A survey on professional views of patient handoffs was conducted, collecting 276 responses. A five-dimensional structure forming performance assessment was acquired for unit handoffs. Based on the structure, Chinese health care professionals put a stress on patient involvement but stated extremely severe organizational conflicts. Nurses exhibited significantly higher acknowledgment than physicians and they generally evaluated quality of shift handoffs better than that of unit handoffs. In addition, health care professionals perceived that information were less sufficiently transferred when receiving patients than sending. In particular, they were likely to recognize that a lack of required information occurred more frequently when receiving patients from emergency department, ambulance and other hospitals. Comparing to Japanese nurse views, Chinese nurses exhibited significantly higher patient handoff performance in their own units and hospitals.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85051790879
U2 - 10.1201/9781315210469-211
DO - 10.1201/9781315210469-211
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051790879
SN - 9781138629370
T3 - Safety and Reliability - Theory and Applications - Proceedings of the 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2017
SP - 1675
EP - 1682
BT - Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications - Proceedings of the 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2017
A2 - Cepin, Marko
A2 - Briš, Radim
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
Y2 - 18 June 2017 through 22 June 2017
ER -