Correspondence to: Dr J. S. Anwari Accepted: 15 August 2001
After surgery and anaesthesia, patients are transferred from the operating theatre to the postanaesthesia care unit (PACU), where the anaesthetist hands over the patient to the PACU nurse. Continuation of care demands a good quality handover. The aim of this study was to look at the quality of the handover by the anaesthetists to the PACU nurse.