Patient Safety and ISBAR - Juniper Publishers

Nursing & Health Care - Juniper Publishers Opinion Teamwork and communication between healthcare personnel are vital to quality of care and patient safety [1,2]. Patient safety is defined as protection against unnecessary harm resulting from the health service’s efforts or lack of efforts [3]. ISBAR is a mnemonic created to improved safety in transfer of patient information. ISBAR is the acronym of Identification, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation. It is a patient safety communic