The effect of the COACH program (Continuity of Appropriate pharmacotherapy, patient Counselling and information transfer in Healthcare) on readmission rates in a multicultural population of internal medicine patients

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Karapinar Arkt, Fatma ^a,b   Borgsteede, Sander D ^a,c   Zoer, Jan ^a   Siegert, Carl ^a   Van Tulder, Maurits ^d   Egberts, Antoine Cg ^b,e   Van Den Bemt, Patricia Mla ^b,f  

^a Department of Hospital Pharmacy ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COUNSELING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; COUNSELING; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION RECONCILIATION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77949473453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-39     Document Type: Article

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