TY - JOUR T1 - Hospital passports require standardisation to improve patient safety and person-centred care for those with intellectual disability JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/eb-2018-102869 SP - ebnurs-2018-102869 AU - Yona Lunsky Y1 - 2018/03/06 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2018/03/06/eb-2018-102869.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Northway R, Rees S, Davies M, et al. Hospital passports, patient safety and person-centred care: a review of documents currently used for people with intellectual disabilities in the UK. J Clin Nurs 2017;26:5160–5168.Standardised tools are needed to improve communication about the needs of patients with intellectual disability (ID) and increase their safety.The tension between maintaining person centredness in tools (patient need) and keeping information standardised and simple (provider need) must be balanced to design a common tool.Research is needed on the most critical content areas to be explored with tools and how to achieve buy-in across hospitals to utilise standardised tools.Improving patient provider communication and safety is crucial for people with ID, as they are more likely to have recurrent emergency visits1 and die preventable deaths2 because of poor healthcare received. The … ER -