I-PASS

Introduction

Hand-off tool.

• I: Illness severity
• P: Patient summary
• A: Action list
• S: Situation awareness & contingency planning
• S: Synthesis by receiver

Differential diagnosis

• closed loop
  • person receiving an instruction simply repeats it back to the sender
  • sender confirms that the message was understood correctly
  • apparently no room for receiver to ask a clarifying question
  • implication is that the message however long is repeated verbatem

More general terms

• clinical procedure