Communication between nurses and physicians in home care.
The increasing acuity of illness among home care patients and complexity of the in-home service network have created a greater need for frequent communication between the various members of the interdisciplinary home care team. This will likely become an increasingly important quality-of-care issue as home care continues to expand and to incorporate advances in technology.
Boling
P A
PA
Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Keenan
J M
JM
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