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Handing over patient care: is it just the old broken telephone game?
Zendejas B, Ali SM, Huebner M, Farley DR. J Surg Educ. 2011;68:465-471.

General surgery residents strongly preferred signing out patients in person rather than by videoconferencing or other electronic modalities, but in this simulation study, signout accuracy was suboptimal in all methods tested.
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