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title: "Becker’s Hospital Review: Structured patient handoffs cut adverse effects by nearly 50%, researchers find"
description: Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) recently highlighted a study showing that structured I-PASS handoffs cut adverse event rates in half across hospitals of varying sizes, settings, and patient populations.
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# [Becker’s Hospital Review: Structured patient handoffs cut adverse effects by nearly 50%, researchers find](https://news.ipassinstitute.com/news/beckers-hospital-review-structured-patient-handoffs-cut-adverse-effects)

 Written by [I-Pass Institute](https://news.ipassinstitute.com/news/author/i-pass-institute) | Dec 16, 2022 5:42:32 PM

[Becker’s Hospital Review](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/structured-patient-handoffs-cut-adverse-effects-by-nearly-50-researchers-find.html) recently covered the latest I-PASS study that was published in the *Journal of Hospital Medicine. *The program's largest and most diverse clinical study to date revealed a dramatic reduction in handoff-related harm events through the implementation of the I-PASS handoff methodology. The study also found improvements in the completeness and quality of handoff communications. In addition to sharing highlights from the *Journal of Hospital Medicine *study*, *Becker’s Hospital Review discussed findings from a [2014](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa1405556) I-PASS study in the *New England Journal of Medicine*.

To gain more information about I-PASS, our co-founders, and our latest studies, [read the full article.](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/structured-patient-handoffs-cut-adverse-effects-by-nearly-50-researchers-find.html)

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