Handover in psychiatric settings : is change needed?

摘要: Handover is a tradition in mental health settings and can occupy significant amount of time each day, yet the topic has commanded limited attention psychiatric literature. Increasing staff changes growing reliance on casual heightened need for effective efficient transfer essential information, as will often find themselves with unfamiliar patients. In this context, timely handovers are crucial. The aim article to examine handover consider how it may be used optimally enhance service delivery. To reduce information loss increase accuracy, verbal could supplemented computer-generated patient data. This combination ensure face-to-face interaction remains perhaps decrease spent unproductively. Further research necessary evaluate such system.