Title:

SBAR ABCDE Critical Care Handover Tool

Description:

Structured handover document using SBAR (situation, background, assessment, recommendations) & ABCDE formats combisned to allow a structured focused handover of critical care patients.
Introduced as a quality improvement tool, particularly in the context of stretched nursing rations and less experienced staff, this guide has reduced the time taken to handover patients, with an increase in staff satisfaction and no deterioration in the quality of handover.

Hierarchy:

London Transformation and Learning Collaborative - Critical Care (LTLC) > Great Operational Practices > SBAR ABCDE Critical Care Handover Tool

Keywords:

Handover, SBAR, quality improvement, ABCDE, ICU, critical care

Created:

17 Feb 2021

Updated:

17 Feb 2021