• Welcome to the Relay Race Readiness Tool™
    (RRRT)

    This assessment evaluates the quality of patient handoffs at your organization, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.

    It's built on the idea that every handoff is like a relay race: success depends on the entire team, including clinicians and patients, working together to pass the baton safely.

    The RRRT™ consists of two parts:

    1) The Hand-Off Foundations Scale (HFS) measures the structural side of your handoffs: whether they follow best-practice protocols based on the five components of effective handoffs.

    2) The Hand-Off Teamwork Scale (HTS) measures the people side: the quality of teamwork, support, and trust that make those protocols work.

    This assessment is designed for healthcare professionals, including frontline clinicians, administrators, and support staff. It is free and takes less than 10 minutes to complete.

    You will receive a score for each scale, presented as a percentage. We will also send you a personalized Certificate of Completion via email.

  • Part 1

    Instructions: The Hand-Off Foundations Scale measures the structure of handoffs at your organization. Indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements, based on what typically happens at your organization. Some items may apply to different types of handoffs (e.g., shift-change, transfer-of-care). Answer based on whichever type is most relevant to that action. If you are not sure about a specific action, select “Neutral or Unknown.”

  • This first set of questions refers to the behaviors of “sending” clinicians or care teams, the clinicians that are handing off a patient to someone else. Indicate whether the sending clinicians at your organization perform the following actions.*
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  • This next set of questions refers to “receiving” clinicians, the clinician that is accepting responsibility for the patient. Indicate how much you agree that the following statements apply to receiving clinicians.*
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  • This section is about general handoff practices at your organization. Indicate how much you agree with each statement.*
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  • Part 2

    Instructions: The Hand-Off Teamwork Scale evaluates the quality of teamwork, support, and trust at your current organization. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements based on your honest perception of how things currently work, not how you think they should work.

  • This first section measures the beliefs and behaviors of colleagues at your organization. When responding, think about the clinicians and other team members that you work with most often. Remember, your responses should describe the current state of your organization.*
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  • This section evaluates the extent to which patients at your organization are included as members of their own care team. Answer each item based on current practices at your organization, whenever the action described is relevant or possible during patient/clinician interactions.*
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  • These statements refer to your personal beliefs and behaviors at your current organization. Indicate how much you agree with the following statements.*
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  • Please click Submit below to save your responses 

  • To personalize your Certificate with your name, job title, and/or organization, please fill out those fields as well. If you leave them blank, your Certificate will include your scores only.

  • Which of the following best describes your current position?
  • What type of handoff do you participate in most often? If you do not participate in handoffs, select “not applicable.”

  • Congratulations on completing the Relay Race Readiness Tool™!

  • Your results reflect how you see handoffs. Your colleagues will see them differently. Where you see strength, someone else might see a gap. But that's not a problem, that's insight.

    Share the tool with your team: hand-off.ai/rrrt

    Thank you for contributing to a better understanding of how handoffs really work. Every response helps us get closer to improving them.

     

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