Using I-PASS in Psychiatry Residency Transitions of Care

• Published in: Academic psychiatry 2018-08, Vol.42 (4), p.534-537
• Main Authors: Bowes, M. Reid, Santiago, Patcho N., Hepps, Jennifer H., Hershey, Benjamin R., Yu, Clifton E.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: At Risk Persons; Check Lists; Checklist - methods; Checklist - standards; Communication; Communication (Thought Transfer); Contingency planning; Curriculum; Educational Environment; Feature: Missions; Graduate Medical Education; Hospitals; Humans; Illnesses; Internship and Residency - methods; Medical Education; Medical errors; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Patient safety; Patient Transfer - methods; Patient Transfer - standards; Patients; Pediatrics; Psychiatrists; Psychiatry; Psychiatry - education; Resistance (Psychology); Therapeutic Recreation; Trainees; Working hours
• ISSN: 1042-9670; 1545-7230
• DOI: 10.1007/s40596-017-0822-1

The term “patient care handoff” is used to describe the process of transferring patient-specific clinical information between health care providers. [...]on a search of the CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and PubMed databases, only one article discussed a specific handoff tool used in a psychiatry program. In addition to restricting resident duty hours, the ACGME established the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program in 2012, with the goal of promoting safety and quality of care by focusing on six areas important to teaching hospitals: patient safety, health care quality, care transitions, supervision, duty hour oversight and fatigue management, and professionalism [4]. [...]patients in the Emergency Department with unresolved psychiatric treatment needs are handed off in I-PASS format along with the other PCLS patients.