Author, as appears in the article.: Tortosa-Alted, Ruth; Martinez-Segura, Estrella; Berenguer-Poblet, Marta; Reverte-Villarroya, Silvia
Department: Infermeria
URV's Author/s: Berenguer Poblet, Marta / Reverté Villarroya, Silvia / Tortosa Alted, Ruth
Keywords: Web of science Validity and reliability Validation process Systematic review Surveys and questionnaires Scopus Review Questionnaire Psycinfo Psychometry Psychometrics Prehospital emergency care Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses Patient handoff Medline Male Internal consistency Information Human Female Emergency medical services Emergency health service Critically ill patient Content validity Construct validity Clinical handover Cinahl Adult validity and reliability quality psychometrics prehospital emergency care patient handoff emergency medical services discharge
Abstract: The emergency handover of critical patients is used to describe the moment when re-sponsibility for the care of a patient is transferred from one critical patient care healthcare team to another, requiring the accurate delivery of information. However, the literature provides few validated assessment tools for the transfer of critical patients in urgent care and emergency settings. To identify the available evaluation tools that assess the handover of critical patients in urgent and emergency care settings in addition to evaluations of their psychometric properties, a systematic review was carried out using PubMed, Scopus, Cinahl, Web of Science (WoS), and PsycINFO, in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. The quality of the studies was assessed using the COSMIN checklist. Finally, eight articles were identified, of which only three included validated tools for evaluating the handover of critical patients in emergency care. Content validity, construct validity, and internal consistency were the most studied psychometric properties. Three studies evaluated error and reliability, criterion validity, hypothesis testing, and sensitivity. None of them considered cross-cultural adaptation or the translation process. This systematic psychometric review shows the existing ambiguities in the handover of critically ill patients and the scarcity of validated evaluation tools. For all of these reasons, we consider it necessary to further investigate urgent care and emergency handover settings through the design and validation of an assessment tool. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Thematic Areas: Medicine, general & internal Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicine (all)
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: ruth.tortosa@urv.cat silvia.reverte@urv.cat marta.berenguer@urv.cat ruth.tortosa@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-2052-9978 0000-0002-6631-3777
Record's date: 2024-06-28
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/10/24/5736
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Journal Of Clinical Medicine. 10 (24): 5736-
APA: Tortosa-Alted, Ruth; Martinez-Segura, Estrella; Berenguer-Poblet, Marta; Reverte-Villarroya, Silvia (2021). Handover of critical patients in urgent care and emergency settings: A systematic review of validated assessment tools. Journal Of Clinical Medicine, 10(24), 5736-. DOI: 10.3390/jcm10245736
Article's DOI: 10.3390/jcm10245736
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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