'Seamless care? Just a list would have helped!' Older people and their carer's experiences of support with medication on discharge home from hospital

Health Expectations

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 277-291

  Knight, Denise A ^a   Thompson, Diane ^a   Mathie, Elspeth ^a   Dickinson, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adherence; Carers; Discharge planning; Medicines management; Older people; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; ADHERENCE; ARTICLE; MEDICINES MANAGEMENT; OLDER PEOPLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE; STANDARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

ADHERENCE; CARERS; DISCHARGE PLANNING; MEDICINES MANAGEMENT; OLDER PEOPLE; QUALITATIVE;

EID: 84881645926     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00714.x     Document Type: Article

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