Residents and medical students recalled clinical information with less accuracy after hearing a patient handoff rife with biased language, a survey study found. Those who heard handoffs with blame ...

Handoffs, the transfer of responsibility from one provider to another, commonly occur in intra-disciplinary silos that exclude patients. Research is rare about patients' participation in handoffs ...

The paper is titled "Biased Language in Simulated Handoffs and Clinician Recall and Attitudes." Such shifts in perception may be subtle and unintentional in many cases, but as these hidden biases ...

Expanding handoffs to include inpatients would be well supported by most oncology patients but will require substantial changes in behavior on the part of patients and nurses. Informatics ...