Participants’ responses to the survey question, “What information do you believe is vital to provide during handover to obtain high-quality patient safety?”
| Handover topic | Mean ± SD* |
|---|---|
| Patient demographics | |
| Age of patient | 4.20 ± 0.63 |
| Level of care (resuscitation level) | 4.08 ± 0.82 |
| Where patient lives (i.e., house, condo, nursing home) | 3.35 ± 0.93 |
| Injury | |
| Diagnosis/injury pattern | 4.64 ± 0.54 |
| Mechanism of injury | 4.20 ± 0.70 |
| Neurovascular exam | 4.60 ± 0.57 |
| Open or closed injury | 4.73 ± 0.47 |
| Polytrauma patient | 4.70 ± 0.50 |
| Periarticular injury | 4.35 ± 0.70 |
| Dislocated injury at any time | 4.49 ± 0.64 |
| Reduced or not | 4.69 ± 0.49 |
| Splinted or not | 4.51 ± 0.59 |
| Pertinent physical exam findings | 4.54 ± 0.57 |
| Unique fracture patterns | 4.32 ± 0.75 |
| Preoperative considerations | |
| Urgency of OR (operation) | 4.67 ± 0.54 |
| Current status of patient (i.e., stable or not) | 4.72 ± 0.48 |
| Patient ready for operating room (i.e., medical readiness) | 4.63 ± 0.51 |
| Reversible medical conditions/comorbidities | 4.29 ± 0.63 |
| Recent pertinent medical conditions (i.e., MI, stroke, PE) | 4.48 ± 0.56 |
| Need for anesthesia or internal medicine consult (and whether called/seen/cleared for operation) | 4.54 ± 0.55 |
| Diagnostic imaging still needing to be ordered/reviewed (i.e., cervical spine for rheumatoid arthritis patient, CT scan for preoperative planning) | 4.57 ± 0.56 |
| Associated Injuries | 4.51 ± 0.55 |
| Patient factors | |
| Substance abuse (i.e., nicotine, EToH, drugs) | 4.03 ± 0.67 |
| Hand dominance | 3.20 ± 0.89 |
| Functional status | 3.77 ± 0.85 |
| Ambulatory status (i.e., preinjury use of walking aids) | 3.89 ± 0.81 |
| Work status | 3.37 ± 0.86 |
| Workers Compensation Board injury? (WCB, WSIB) | 3.17 ± 0.86 |
| Prior pain/injury to current site of injury? | 3.68 ± 0.85 |
| Blood work | |
| International normalized ratio (reversed or not) | 4.53 ± 0.62 |
| Complete blood count | 3.93 ± 0.87 |
| Electrolytes | 3.80 ± 0.87 |
| Type and screen | 3.74 ± 0.91 |
| Other | |
| Consent obtained (or need of 2 physician/interpreter) | 4.43 ± 0.63 |
| Anything else preventing from taking patient to OR? | 4.49 ± 0.62 |
CT = computed tomography; EToH = ethanol; MI = myocardial infarction; PE = pulmonary embolism; OR = operating room; SD = standard deviation; WCB = Workers Compensation Board; WSIB = Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.
↵* On a Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).