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Enhancing Patient Safety During Hand-Offs: Standardized communication and teamwork using the 'SBAR' method.
Hohenhaus S, Powell S, Hohenhaus JT. Am J Nurs. 2006;106:72A-72B.

The authors discuss improving handoff communication by adapting crew resource management techniques and using the SBAR model (situation, background, assessment, recommendation).
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