What is it about?
The development and implementation of an electronic medical handover across multiple psychiatric hospitals within an NHS Foundation Trust.
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Why is it important?
The increasing number of complex patients with comorbid medical illness in psychiatric inpatient services demands robust handover systems similar to that of an acute trust. This QI work offers a template for achieving this across other psychiatric trusts and demonstrates the positive change that can be achieved
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This page is a summary of: Development and implementation of electronic medical handovers across psychiatric hospitals: quality improvement initiative, BMJ Open Quality, November 2019, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2019-000630.
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