Improving clinical handovers: creating local solutions for a global problem

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Julie K Johnson et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009 Aug.

. 2009 Aug;18(4):244-5.

doi: 10.1136/qshc.2009.032946.

¹ Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. j.johnson@unsw.edu.au

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