Evaluation of a Primary Care-Based Post-Discharge Phone Call Program: Keeping the Primary Care Practice at the Center of Post-hospitalization Care Transition

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1513-1518

  Tang, Ning ^a   Fujimoto, Jeffrey ^a,b   Karliner, Leah ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

care management; care transitions; health care delivery; primary care; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

AFTERCARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TELENURSING; TELEPHONE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AFTERCARE; CALIFORNIA; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRIMARY CARE NURSING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TELENURSING; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84930909649     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2942-6     Document Type: Article

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