A multidisciplinary Care Coordination Team improves emergency department discharge planning practice
- 21 October 2002
- journal article
- healthcare
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 177 (8) , 427-439
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04884.x
Abstract
In response to difficulties meeting the demand for hospital services (”access block”) at Royal Melbourne Hospital, a major metropolitan tertiary referral hospital, an audit of patient needs revealed...Keywords
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