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International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 505426, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/505426
Research Article

How Does Nursing Staff Perceive the Use of Electronic Handover Reports? A Questionnaire-Based Study

Torbjørg Meum,1,2 Gro Wangensteen,3 Karen S. Soleng,3 and Rolf Wynn1,3

1Telemedicine Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø, 9038 Tromsø, Norway
2Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory, University Hospital of North Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
3Divison of Addiction and Specialized Psychiatry, University Hospital of North Norway, 9291 Tromsø, Norway

Received 1 December 2010; Revised 28 March 2011; Accepted 13 April 2011

Academic Editor: George Demiris

Copyright © 2011 Torbjørg Meum et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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