Managing the care of patients discharged from home health: a quiet threat to patient safety?

Linda Flynn

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Managing the care of patients discharged from home health: a quiet threat to patient safety?

August 26, 2011

Flynn L. Home Healthc Nurse. 2007;25(3):184-90.

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The author found that nurses have varying degrees of confidence in their patients' ability to manage their own care safely after discharge from home health services.

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