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Chapter 22 - Safe Patient Handoffs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2018

Thomas Ivester
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Patrice M. Weiss
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Paul A. Gluck
Affiliation:
University of Miami
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