Many variations of SBAR have been developed
to support handover, including adaptation for
use by the following National Clinical Handover
Initiative teams:
● ‘TeamSTEPPSTM’, South Australian
Department of Health Clinical Systems Unit
and South Australian Health Services
● ‘Bedside Handover and Whiteboard
Communication’, Griffi th University Research
Centre for Clinical Practice Innovation,
Queensland Health Patient Safety Centre
and Peel Health Campus, Western Australia
● ‘The PACT Program – Communication
Training and Team Training to Support
Handover’, Albury-Wodonga Private Hospital
– Ramsay Healthcare
The PACT Program piloted at Albury-Wodonga
Private Hospital used two SBAR communication
tools to standardise and facilitate shift-to-shift
and nurse-to-doctor communication. Nurses
who participated in the pilot believed handover
had improved and 80% felt mo