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Other Considerations
- Standardization across all units in org would bring many more benefits (study costs prohibitive)
- HANDS generates data for describing care, progress toward outcomes, meeting goals, RN patient load, benchmarking best practices
- EHRs are costly spend billions of dollars (over and above software costs) training and tailoring to foster variation in look and feel... away from standardization
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