Decisions about transferring nursing home residents to hospital: Highlighting the roles of advance care planning and support from local hospital and community health services

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2897-2906

  Shanley, Christopher ^a   Whitmore, Elizabeth ^b   Conforti, David ^c   Masso, Janine ^d   Jayasinghe, Sanjay ^a   Griffiths, Rhonda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Clinical Nurse Consultant Aged Care   (United States)

^c National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Australia; Hospitalisation; Nurses; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052586474     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03635.x     Document Type: Article

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