Long-Term care facilities: Important participants of the acute care facility social network?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Bruce Y ^a,b   Song, Yeohan ^a,b   Bartsch, Sarah M ^a,b   Kim, Diane S ^c   Singh, Ashima ^a,b   Avery, Taliser R ^d   Brown, Shawn T ^b,e   Yilmaz, S Levent ^f   Wong, Kim F ^f   Potter, Margaret A ^b   Burke, Donald S ^b   Platt, Richard ^d   Huang, Susan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNITED STATES; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT;

HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATION; LONG-TERM CARE; PATIENT TRANSFER; SOCIAL NETWORKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84455161574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029342     Document Type: Article

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