Abstract
Clear and effective communication is an essential component of safe patient care especially during transfers. However, miscommunication frequently occurs when patient care is transferred from one team of providers to the next.1 The Joint Commission acknowledges this concern and recommends a standardized approach for conducting patient hand offs.2 Therefore, the need to create a postoperative hand offs culture was identified. A multidisciplinary team was created to design the purpose, implementation and evaluation processes.
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