Comprehensive discharge planning: a hospital-home healthcare partnership.
Shorter hospital stays place new demands on the discharge planning process. A research study that evaluated discharge planning outcomes reveals a critical need for comprehensive discharge planning involving both hospital and home healthcare agencies.
Rhoads
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Dean
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Cason
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Blaylock
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D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards*