{"title":"Time to hand over our old way of working?","authors":"Mark Harrison, William Eardley, Brendan McCarron","doi":"10.12968/hmed.2005.66.7.18383","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The European Working Time Directive and the change to shift working have highlighted the need for a high level of continuity of patient care. Continuity of information, through a competent and professional handover allows doctors to be not only made aware of the issues important to each patient's care, but also allows a knowledge-based approach to that patient's management.</p>","PeriodicalId":79637,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine (London, England : 1998)","volume":"66 7","pages":"399-400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12968/hmed.2005.66.7.18383","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospital medicine (London, England : 1998)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2005.66.7.18383","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The European Working Time Directive and the change to shift working have highlighted the need for a high level of continuity of patient care. Continuity of information, through a competent and professional handover allows doctors to be not only made aware of the issues important to each patient's care, but also allows a knowledge-based approach to that patient's management.