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Discharge communications between hospital and community health care staff — a selective review
Author(s)	S J Closs
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 5, no 3, May 1997
Pages	pp 181-197
Keywords	Aftercare ; Communication ; Medical workers ; Hospital services.
Annotation	The rate of turnover of NHS hospital patients is rising, while lengths of stay are becoming shorter. This means that newly discharged patients are increasingly dependent, and many are in need of carefully planned and immediate care in the community. The appropriate provision of such care requires effective communication between hospitals and community health care staff. Aspects of communications examined in this review include: the timing of dispatch and receipt of discharge information, its content, format and mode of transmission, as well as the contributors to, and direction of, communications. Recommendations are made for improving communications, and for further research.
Accession Number	CPA-970529019 A
Classmark	LN: U: QT: LD
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