Improving shift handovers between medical residents : the effect of information access cost, metacognition and media affordances

• Main Author: Yang, Xi
• Other Authors: Christopher D. Wickens
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/61053
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The continuity of patient care and limited resident working hours routinize the handover of patients between doctors. Despite of the pivotal role to ensure quality of patient care, clinical handovers were found to be vulnerable episodes contributing to near misses, adverse events and waste of health...