What accounts for hospital readmission?

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 3334-3346

  Wong, Frances K Y ^a   Chan, Moon Fai ^b   Chow, Susan ^a   Chang, Katherine ^a   Chung, Loretta ^a   Lee, Wai Man ^a   Lee, Rance ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hospital; Nurses; Nursing; Structural equation model; Unplanned readmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649557226     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03366.x     Document Type: Article

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