title: Professionals in 'alliance' achieve more effective discharge planning.
abstract: A general hospital's discharge planning program shows how patients' needs can be met more effectively when various health care professionals work in "alliance" rather than in more rigid modes, such as "the team." In alliance, professionals can perform nontraditional roles, compromise, and shift dominance and partnerships in order torespond to patients' needs with more flexibility and common sense.
mesh_terms: D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014600:Utilization Review; D014922:Wisconsin