Who to handover: a case-control study of a novel scoring system to prioritise handover of internal medicine inpatients.
Jesse BittmanPenny TamChris LittleNadia KhanPublished in: Postgraduate medical journal (2016)
The iHAND score had moderate ability to predict which patients required assessment overnight, while MEWS score and current gestalt approach correlated poorly, suggesting the iHAND score may help prioritisation of patients likely to be seen overnight for handover.