Preventing Opioid Prescription Theft and Ensuring SeCure Transfer of Personal Health Information when Patients Transition from the Hospital to a Nursing Home

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2016, Pages e23-e25

  Kennelty, Korey A ^a,b   Jensen, Laury L ^a   Gehring, Michael ^a,b   Gilmore Bykovskyi, Andrea ^a,c   Roiland, Rachel A ^a   Kordahl, Rebecca ^a   Kind, Amy J H ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

CAREGIVER; CLINICAL HANDOVER; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSING HOME; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION; PHARMACIST; PRESCRIPTION; WORKFLOW; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84987806968     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14212     Document Type: Letter

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