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Restrictions on physician work hours may lead to more miscommunicationAs shifts change in a hospital, outgoing physicians must "hand off" important information to their replacements in a brief meeting. But a new study of this hand-off process finds that the most important information is not fully conveyed in a majority of cases, even as physicians rate their communication as successful.The research, published by University of Chicago researchers in the March issue of Pediatrics,...