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Handoffs and fumbles.
Wachter RM, Shojania KG. In: Wachter RM, Shojania KG. Internal Bleeding. New York, NY: Rugged Land; 2004:159-180.
Personal stories illustrate the systems issues that contribute to mismanagement of patients as they move from provider to provider throughout the health care system.
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