CORDIS Project
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The HANDOVER project aims to enhance patient safety by improving communication during care transitions between primary and hospital care. It focuses on reducing medical errors and unnecessary treatments by identifying best practices and creating standardized handoff protocols tailored to local needs.
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 continuity of clinical care (with multiple provider involvement), either at a patient’s referral to a ho…
UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT
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United Kingdom, Birmingham
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
Poland, KRAKOW
Type: Public body
Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Italy, FIRENZE
Type: Public body
Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
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