Internal and emergency medicine
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Intern Emerg Med
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Communication failures in the pre-hospital/hospital interface have been identified as a major preventable cause of patient harm. This interface has not adequately been studied in Italy. ⋯ We adapted existing handover communication tools for local use and developed a checklist for the evaluation of handover communication that had good inter-rater reliability. Lectures coupled with high-fidelity simulation exercises on handover did result in a statistically significant improvement in handover communication.