Expert-coded adequacy of handoff, number of questions asked per minute by incoming nurse, and length of handoff as a function of outgoing nurse experience and incoming nurse knowledge of the patient
| Outgoing nurse experience as RN | Incoming nurse knowledge of the patient | |
| Does not know patient | Knows patient | |
| 1–5 years | 2.44 Adequacy of handoff (n=23) | 2.46 Adequacy of handoff (n=20) |
| 3.65 Incoming nurse questions (n=23) | 3.81 Incoming nurse questions (n=21) | |
| 5.48 Length of handoff (min) (n=27) | 4.59 Length of handoff (min) (n=22) | |
| 6–13 years | 2.76 Adequacy of handoff (n=7) | 2.20 Adequacy of handoff (n=6) |
| 2.14 Incoming nurse questions (n=7) | 12.50 Incoming nurse questions (n=6) | |
| 6.57 Length of handoff (min) (n=7) | 7.67 Length of handoff (min) (n=6) | |