In 2009, the Joint Commission identified a standardized approach to handoff communication as a patient safety goal to reduce communication errors. Evidence suggests that a structured handoff report, combined with active patient participation, reduces communication errors and promotes patient safety. Research shows that bedside handoff increases nurses' accountability by visualizing the patient ...

In CDMA (Code DivisionMultiple Access) cellular networks, the soft handoff technique allows a mobile host to communicate with multiple base stations simultaneously, improving the transmission quality of the wireless channel and avoiding disconnection upon to base station switching. In this thesis, we define the soft handoff margin as the area in which the mobile host can use soft handoff and ev...

The undergoing third-generation wireless network needs to support the integration of voice and multimedia data services with varying quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. It is critical that the least bit-error rate (BER) for voice traffic, World Wide Web (WWW) traffic, and streaming video traffic be guaranteed at all time. In this paper, we discussed the integration of soft handoff and dynami...

In cognitive networks, spectrum handoff occurs when primary users reclaim their rights to access their licensed spectrum. When links perform spectrum handoff, their communication may be interrupted for a certain period and incurs spectrum handoff delay. Existing work only considered the problem of minimizing spectrum handoff delay of a single link in single-hop cognitive networks, referred to a...

The convergence of heterogeneous wireless access technologies has been envisioned to characterize the next generation wireless networks. In such converged systems, the seamless and efficient handoff between different access technologies (vertical handoff) is essential and remains a challenging problem. The heterogeneous co-existence of access technologies with largely different characteristics ...

BACKGROUND Communication errors are considered one of the major causes of sentinel events. Our aim was to assess the process of patient handoff among junior surgical residents and to determine ways in which to improve the handoff process. METHODS We conducted nationwide surveys that included all accredited general surgery residency programs in the United States and Canada. RESULTS Of the 24...

This report analyzes the performance of a soft handoff algorithm of the type that has been proposed in the IS-95 CDMA standard. In the soft handoff scheme, multiple base stations are involved in the communication to and from one mobile station to improve the handoff performance on the boundaries between two base stations by providing channel diversity. On the other hand, there are additional re...

Mobile IPv4 has long been considered as the de facto standard in providing mobility on the Internet. However, as the demand for wireless mobile devices capable of executing realtime applications increases, it has necessitated the development of better handoff techniques, for providing superior handoff latency and Quality of Service (QoS), than the current Mobile IPv4. Its contention successor, ...