Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 101-107 , April 2010

Improving safety and documentation in intrahospital transport: Development of an intrahospital transport tool for critically ill patients

  • Rebecca J. Jarden

      Affiliations

    • Intensive Care Unit, Wellington Hospital, Capital & Coast District Health Board, Wellington, New Zealand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +64 4 3855999x80432.
    • ,
  • Sara Quirke

      Affiliations

    • Graduate School of Nursing Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

,Accepted 17 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.12.007

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 101-107 , April 2010

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