Organizational culture: An important context for addressing and improving hospital to community patient discharge

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-98

  Hesselink, Gijs ^a   Vernooij Dassen, Myrra ^a,b   Pijnenborg, Loes ^c   Barach, Paul ^d,e   Gademan, Petra ^c   Dudzik Urbaniak, Ewa ^f   Flink, Maria ^g   Orrego, Carola ^h   Toccafondi, Giulio ⁱ   Johnson, Julie K ^j   Schoonhoven, Lisette ^a   Wollersheim, Hub ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Kalorama Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^e National Center for Quality Assessment in Health Care   (Poland)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h Fundacion Avedis Donabedian   (Spain)

ⁱ Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety Centre   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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Author keywords

barriers; handover; Hospital discharge; hospital primary care interface; organizational culture; patient safety; quality of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EUROPE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84871615450     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31827632ec     Document Type: Article

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