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Abstract
The transferring of patient care responsibility from one health-care professional to another.
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51 entry terms
- Patient Hand Off
- Patient Hand Offs
- Patient Hand Over
- Patient Hand Overs
- Patient Handover
- Patient Sign Out
- Patient Sign Outs
- Patient Signout
- Patient Signover
- Hand Off, Patient
- Hand Offs, Patient
- Hand Over, Patient
- Hand Overs, Patient
- Handoff, Patient
- Handoffs, Patient
- Handover, Patient
- Handovers, Patient
- Patient Handoffs
- Patient Handovers
- Patient Signouts
- Patient Signovers
- Sign Out, Patient
- Sign Outs, Patient
- Signout, Patient
- Signouts, Patient
- Signover, Patient
- Signovers, Patient
- Clinical Handoffs
- Clinical Handover
- Nursing Hand Off
- Nursing Hand Offs
- Nursing Hand Over
- Nursing Hand Overs
- Nursing Handoff
- Nursing Handover
- Clinical Handoff
- Clinical Handovers
- Hand Off, Nursing
- Hand Offs, Nursing
- Hand Over, Nursing
- Hand Overs, Nursing
- Handoff, Clinical
- Handoff, Nursing
- Handoffs, Clinical
- Handoffs, Nursing
- Handover, Clinical
- Handover, Nursing
- Handovers, Clinical
- Handovers, Nursing
- Nursing Handoffs
- Nursing Handovers
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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2013
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Patient Handoff. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D062209. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D062209
- Patient Handoff. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_handover
- Patient Handoff. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5133834