What are covering doctors told about their patients? Analysis of sign-out among internal medicine house staff.

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Published in Qual Saf Health Care on August 01, 2009

Authors

L I Horwitz1, T Moin, H M Krumholz, L Wang, E H Bradley

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, USA. leora.horwitz@yale.edu

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