Understanding the occupational and organizational boundaries to safe hospital discharge

@article{Waring2015UnderstandingTO,
  title={Understanding the occupational and organizational boundaries to safe hospital discharge},
  author={Justin Waring and Fiona Marshall and Simon Bishop},
  journal={Journal of Health Services Research \& Policy},
  year={2015},
  volume={20},
  pages={35 - 44}
}
Objective Safe hospital discharge relies upon communication and coordination across multiple occupational and organizational boundaries. Our aim was to understand how these boundaries can exacerbate health system complexity and represent latent sociocultural threats to safe discharge. Methods An ethnographic study was conducted in two local health and social care systems (health economies) in England, focusing on two clinical areas: stroke and hip fracture patients. Data collection involved 345… 
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