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Health IT implementation stories: HANDS care plan tool seeks to improve nurse communication at handoff in AHRQ-funded study.
AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology.

This article describes an AHRQ-funded project to discern whether a standardized, computerized tool can improve handoff communication.
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