The I-PASS Patient Safety Institute is focused on helping hospitals and health systems with large-scale implementation and sustainment of the I-PASS Handoff Method in order to reduce medical errors that occur during patient handoffs and transitions of care.
Medical errors due to communication failures are a leading cause of harm and death in patients in the United States. Transitions of patient care, also referred to as handoffs, occur when the responsibility for patient care moves from one health care provider or hospital unit to another (e.g. during a change of shift from day to evening or when a patient moves from a general inpatient unit to an intensive care unit).
I-PASS helps save lives by improving verbal and written communications that occur between healthcare providers during handoffs of patient care.
Learn more about our methods at our website below!