Enhancing patient safety: improving the patient handoff process through appreciative inquiry.

Nancy Shendell-Falik; Michael Feinson; Bernard J Mohr

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Enhancing patient safety: improving the patient handoff process through appreciative inquiry.

February 14, 2007

Shendell-Falik N, Feinson M, Mohr BJ. J Nurs Adm. 2007;37(2):95-104.

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