Reframing Hospital to Home Discharge from "Should We?" to "How Can We?": COVID-19 and Beyond

Allison M Gustavson¹, Amy Toonstra², Joshua K Johnson^{3

4}, Kristine E Ensrud^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
² Department of Physical Therapy, Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
³ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁴ Center for Value-Based Care Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Allison M Gustavson et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;69(3):608-609.

doi: 10.1111/jgs.17036. Epub 2021 Feb 6.

Allison M Gustavson¹, Amy Toonstra², Joshua K Johnson^{3

4}, Kristine E Ensrud^{1

5}

¹ Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
² Department of Physical Therapy, Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
³ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁴ Center for Value-Based Care Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no other conflicts of interest to declare.

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