Interprofessional Collaboration to Improve Discharge from Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: Preliminary Data on Postdischarge Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1895-1899

  Reidt, Shannon L ^a,b   Holtan, Haley S ^b   Larson, Tom A ^a   Thompson, Bruce ^c   Kerzner, Lawrence J ^b   Salvatore, Toni M ^a   Adam, Terrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Comprehensive Pharmacy Services ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

medication related problem; skilled nursing facility; transitions of care

Indexed keywords

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRICIAN; HOME; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACIST; RACE; SEX; TRANSITIONAL CARE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 84987792438     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14258     Document Type: Article

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