title: Planning for a more comfortable stay. Setting up a pre-admission visiting service.
abstract: Pre-admission hospital visiting gives people an ideal opportunity to discuss with nursing staff what their hospital stay will entail. Such preparation has been shown to improve patients' recovery and enhance the overall quality of care.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Holloway
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010343:Patient Admission; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care