An ethnographic study of knowledge sharing across the boundaries between care processes, services and organisations: the contributions to ‘safe’ hospital discharge

Background Hospital discharge is a vulnerable stage in the patient pathway. Research highlights communication failures and the problems of co-ordination as resulting in delayed, poorly timed and unsafe discharges. The complexity of hospital discharge exemplifies the threats to patient safety foun...

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Main Authors: Waring, Justin, Marshall, Fiona, Bishop, Simon, Sahota, Opinder, Walker, Marion F., Currie, Graeme, Fisher, Rebecca J., Avery, Tony J.
Format: Article
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42708/