Improving patient outcomes with better care transitions: The role for home health

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue ELECTRONICSUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Fleming, Michael O ^a   Haney, Tara Trahan ^a  

^a Amedisys Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICARE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885643490     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.80.e-s1.02     Document Type: Article

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