AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Clinical handovers between prehospital and hospital staff: literature review.

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Clinical handovers between prehospital and hospital staff: literature review.

Wood K, Crouch R, Rowland E, Pope C. Emerg Med J. 2014 Sep 1; [Epub ahead of print].

This review calls for research to understand challenges related to time, resources, and interprofessional relationships that affect information transfer between prehospital and hospital staff before implementing standard methods and tools for this type of handoff.

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