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Vidyarthi A. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. March 2004.
Due to a series of incomplete signouts, information about a patient’s postoperative leg pain and chest discomfort is not conveyed to the primary team. A pulmonary embolism is discovered postmortem
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