In the Clinical Governance Standard, the Clinical Performance and Effectiveness criteria requires the workforce to have the right qualifications, skills and supervision required to provide safe, high-quality health care.

This resource is part of the Implementation Toolkit for Clinical Handover.

This is a national guide to improving clinical handover practices at shift change in a hospital setting. It is based on learnings from the National Clinical Handover Initiative and endorsed by Australian Health Ministers in 2010.

The updated literature review was undertaken by Gaskin Research and incorporates research published from May 2017 to April 2019. Searches of five electronic databases returned 707 papers, three of which met the selection criteria for this review. This review found that there continues to be significant clinical and scientific interest in developing and validating tools for assessing risk of adverse outcomes (e.g., aggression and suicide). Limited attention, however, has been paid to developing a tool to facilitate the recognition of mental state deterioration more broadly.