Passing beyond a wing and a prayer after hospital discharge

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 211 East Ontario Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL, 60610, USA, l-hansen@northwestern.edu.

Editorial

Luke O Hansen. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Apr.

. 2015 Apr;30(4):390-1.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3186-9.

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 211 East Ontario Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL, 60610, USA, l-hansen@northwestern.edu.

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A failure to communicate: a qualitative exploration of care coordination between hospitalists and primary care providers around patient hospitalizations.
Jones CD, Vu MB, O'Donnell CM, Anderson ME, Patel S, Wald HL, Coleman EA, DeWalt DA. Jones CD, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Apr;30(4):417-24. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-3056-x. Epub 2014 Oct 15. J Gen Intern Med. 2015. PMID: 25316586 Free PMC article.

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