Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 10-17 , February 2010

Track, trigger and teamwork: Communication of deterioration in acute medical and surgical wards

  • Lynne A. Donohue

      Affiliations

    • ICU Trelawny Wing, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3LJ, UK
    • ,
  • Ruth Endacott

      Affiliations

    • La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
    • University of Plymouth, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Faculty of Health, Centre Court, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK.

,Accepted 30 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.10.006

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