Handoff Strategies in Settings with High Consequences for Failure

Patterson, E. S. (2004). Handoff Strategies in Settings with High Consequences for Failure: Lessons for Health Care Operations. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 16(2), 125-132.

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2004

DOI

10.1093/intqhc/mzh026

Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzh026

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• Custody Transfer
  • Those failures are why human institutions invent rituals — signatures, seals, manifests, acknowledgements, baton-passes, scan codes — to make the moment unambiguous.

    This sourceObservational study of handoff practice in four high-consequence settings (NASA Johnson Space Center mission control, Canadian nuclear power plants, a U.S. railroad dispatch center, and a Toronto ambulance dispatch center), cataloguing the explicit strategies and rituals these high-accountability domains use to make the responsibility transfer unambiguous — supporting both that institutions invent such handoff rituals and that high-accountability domains invest heavily in unmistakable triggering acts.

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