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Improving the Continuity of patient care Through Identification and implementation of Novel patient handoff processes in Europe (HANDOVER)
Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,
Research has shown that every year 30,000 European patients suffer preventable harm during treatment. It is estimated there were potentially 1,735 avoidable deaths in 2004. The financial cost of avoidable adverse events is reckoned at €167 million, 1% of hospitals’ total budget, due to longer hospital stays and additional treatment. Many of these adverse events relate to handoff in care. Poor cont ...
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