Care transitions in the outpatient surgery preoperative process: facilitators and obstacles to information flow and their consequences.

Kara Schultz; Pascale Carayon; Ann Schoofs Hundt; Scott R Springman

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Care transitions in the outpatient surgery preoperative process: facilitators and obstacles to information flow and their consequences.

November 14, 2007

Schultz K, Carayon P, Hundt AS, et al. Cognition, Technology & Work. 2007;9(4).

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This AHRQ-funded study describes one organization’s efforts to detail its preoperative process around care transitions in order to highlight obstacles and areas for intervention.

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