Patient Handovers - Cognitively Demanding: Does the Handover EHR Meet This Challenge?

Patient handovers are crucial to warrant continuity of care and patient safety. The handoverEHR is an instrument that allows users to depict the main features of a clinical case in cognitive maps. We were interested whether this tool had an effect on the task load. A cross-over study with 30 nursing students was therefore conducted. Mental demand showed a statistical trend to be lower in cognitive map handovers than in the other handover types.