Daily handover in surgery: systematic review and a novel taxonomy of interventions and outcomes.

"Disclosures RCSI SIM (the department of the authors JMR, AS and WE) is a CAE Healthcare Centre of Excellence and receives unrestricted funding from CAE Healthcare to support its educational and research activities. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose."

"Funding This work was supported by the Bon Secours Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, via the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) StAR MD Programme (grant agreement 22253A01) and the Medical Protection Society (MPS) Foundation (grant agreement 23017A01). The funders reviewed the project proposal for this work; however, they had no involvement in study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript preparation, or publication decisions. The authors had complete access to the study data that support the publication."

"This systematic review was prospectively registered on PROSPERO (CRD42022363198) and review methods were established prior to the conduct of this review. This review was also conducted in accordance with the PRISMA and AMSTAR (Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews) Guidelines. PubMed, PubMed Central, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched for all articles published from inception until April 2023 using a search strategy developed with an Information Specialist (full search terms are in ). The results were combined into a reference manager database (Endnote X20, Clarivate PLC, Jersey). Duplicates were removed automatically and manually. The reference lists of the included studies, prior reviews of the same or similar topics and the trial registry Clinicaltrials.gov were screened for additional relevant studies."