How to improve change of shift handovers and collaborative grounding and what role does the electronic patient record system play? Results of a systematic literature review

Highlights • Description of increased scientific interest in nursing and physicians handovers. • Handover tools integrated into EPR systems provide more and better information. • Only very few studies address collaborative grounding. • Different types of information will be needed for a collaborative grounding. • These types of information are usually not contained in electronic record systems.