Standardized documentation can enhance patient hand-offs and thus improve safety in the oncology clinical research trial and urgent care settings, according to speakers at the Oncology Nursing Society 34th Annual Congress. Safe hand-off communication is one of the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals of The Joint Commission, said Jean Ward, RN, BSN, OCN, of the NIH Clinical Center, Nursing and Patient Care Services, Bethesda, Md. Ms. Ward and her colleagues created the Protocol Impact Query System...