Welcome to this week’s Urgent Bite.  Today we look at a simple acronym that you can use to assist in handing over patients or asking for advice, either in person or over the phone.

Postgraduate Medical Journal Article – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Using+the+ISBAR+handover+tool+in+junior+medical+officer+handover%3A+a+study+in+an+Australian+tertiary+hospital

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