BACKGROUND Increasing frequency of shift-to-shift handoffs coupled with regulatory requirements to evaluate handoff quality make a handoff evaluation tool necessary. OBJECTIVE To develop a handoff evaluation tool. DESIGN Tool development. SETTING Two academic medical centers. SUBJECTS Nurse practitioners, medicine housestaff, and hospitalist attendings. INTERVENTION Concurrent peer an...

BACKGROUND To develop a healthcare environment that is congruent with diversity among care providers and care recipients and to eliminate ethnic discrimination, it's important to map out and assess caregivers' awareness and acceptance of diversity. Because of a lack of standardized questionnaires in the Swedish context, this study designed and standardized a questionnaire: the Assessment of Awa...