Completing the play or dropping the ball? the case for comprehensive patient-centered discharge planning

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 1723-1724

  Rhodes, Karin Verlaine ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLOW UP; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 84885899530     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.9318     Document Type: Note

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