Informatics' role in integrating population and patient-level knowledge to improve care transitions in complex chronic disease

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hewner, Sharon ^a   Seo, Jin Young ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Care coordination; Care transitions; Chronic disease; Health informatics; Population health; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918525485     PISSN: 10899758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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