NCT01973959

Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit

Quality of Postoperative Patient Handover in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit: A Prospective Analysis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 790 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Witten/Herdecke · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Anaesthesiology plays a key role in promoting safe perioperative care. This includes the perioperative phase in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) where problems with incomplete information transfer may have a negative impact on patient safety and can lead to patient harm. The objective of this study is to analyse information transfer during postoperative handovers in the PACU. With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Conditions

• Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2013-11-01
• Last updated: 2013-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany