Development and Validation of a Tool to Measure Hand-off Quality
Completed
Conditions studied: Communication, Patient Care, Quality of Health Care
In brief
The aim of this project is to develop and validate a simple, flexible, reliable, real-time observation tool to evaluate hand-off practices. The Hand-off CEX is a paper-based instrument that can be used to evaluate either the sender or the receiver of hand-off communication. This tool is based on a previously-validated, widely-used, real-time educational evaluation tool (the Mini-CEX); published expert opinion; and our prior research . The investigators' tool incorporates unique role-based anchors for both senders and receivers that refer to verbal communication, professionalism and environment, hand-off domains informed by preliminary work and expert opinion. The Hand-off CEX(Clinical Evaluation Exercise) will be used by academic hospitalists and house-staff physicians to assess feasibility. We, the investigators, will also assess the construct validity and inter-rater reliability of the tool through the use of standardized, videotaped hand-off scenarios depicting various levels of performance of a hand-off scenario. We hypothesize that the Hand-off CEX will arm educators with an innovative, necessary, valid and feasible method for training health professionals to conduct safe and effective hand-offs. Finally, the Hand-off CEX will be a useful tool to assist hospitals in improving patient safety.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01059942
- Run by
- University of Chicago
- People needed
- 27
- Starts
- 2010-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-09-05
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All academic hospitalist and internal medicine house-staff are eligible to participate.
You may not qualify if…
- We have no exclusion criteria. All internal medicine residents and hospitalist physicians at the University of Chicago will be invited to participate.
Where it is running
- The University of Chicago Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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