Are disruptions to geographic cohorting safe?

Rachel Kohn^{1

2

3}, Anil N Makam⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Division of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

Editorial

Rachel Kohn et al. J Hosp Med. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;17(1):69-70.

doi: 10.1002/jhm.2739. Epub 2022 Jan 15.

Rachel Kohn^{1

2

3}, Anil N Makam⁴

¹ Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Division of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

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