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

• Main Authors: Justin Waring (Author), Fiona Marshall (Author), Simon Bishop (Author), Opinder Sahota (Author), Marion Walker (Author), Graeme Currie (Author), Rebecca Fisher (Author), Tony Avery (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: National Institute for Health Research, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 found...