If at first you don't succeed: Efforts to improve collaboration between nursing homes and a health system

Topics in Advanced Practice Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Lee, Virginia K ^a   Westley, Cynthia J ^a   Fletcher, Kathleen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; REHABILITATION CENTER;

EID: 23044494488     PISSN: 15352250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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