The care span: The importance of transitional care in achieving health reform

Health Affairs

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 746-754

  Naylor, Mary D ^a   Aiken, Linda H ^a   Kurtzman, Ellen T ^b   Olds, Danielle M ^c   Hirschman, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PATIENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSITIONAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955575105     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0041     Document Type: Article

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