Health IT implementation stories: HANDS care plan tool seeks to improve nurse communication at handoff in AHRQ-funded study.

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Health IT implementation stories: HANDS care plan tool seeks to improve nurse communication at handoff in AHRQ-funded study.

September 26, 2007

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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

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