On Call: Alert or Unsafe? A Report of the AORN On-Call Electronic Task Force

AORN Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Kenyon, Trudy A G ^a   Gluesing, Rebecca E ^a   White, Karen Y ^a   Dunkel, Wanda L ^a   Burlingame, Byron L ^a  

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EID: 34948854381     PISSN: 00012092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aorn.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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