Safety First! Transitions From Hospital to Post-Acute Care
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Pediatric post-acute care hospital transitions: an evaluation of current practice.
OBJECTIVES After discharge from an acute care hospital, some children require ongoing care at a post-acute care hospital. Care transitions occur at both admission to the post-acute care hospital and again at discharge to the home/community. Our objective was to report the current practices used during the admission to and discharge from 7 pediatric post-acute care hospitals in the United States...
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عنوان ژورنال: MedEdPORTAL
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2374-8265
DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9789