Discharged from hospital: Should more responsibility for meeting patients' and carers' information needs now be shouldered in the community?

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 398-405

  Worth, Allison ^a   Tierney, Alison J ^a   Watson, Nicholas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital discharge; Information needs; Primary secondary care interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367793     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2524.2000.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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