The discharge planning dilemma in the UK NHS: The role of knowledge management

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7798 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 172-185

  Kamalanathan, Nitya ^a   Eardley, Alan ^a   Chibelushi, Caroline ^a   Kingston, Paul ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bed blocking; discharge planning (DP); emergency readmissions; frameworks; healthcare; Knowledge management (KM); waiting lists

Indexed keywords

BED BLOCKING; CURRENT STATUS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; EMERGENCY READMISSIONS; FRAMEWORKS; KM FRAMEWORKS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; WAITING LISTS;

HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84875842586     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37899-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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