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Are patients discharged with care? A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences of patients, family members and care providers

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  • Gijs Hesselink Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maria Flink Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SwedenDepartment of Social Work, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mariann Olsson Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SwedenDepartment of Social Work, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul Barach Patient Safety Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The NetherlandsDepartment of Health Studies, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, NorwaySchool of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ewa Dudzik-Urbaniak National Center for Quality Assessment in Health Care, Krakow, Poland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Carola Orrego Avedis Donabedian Institute, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Giulio Toccafondi Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety Centre, GRC, Tuscany Region, Florence FI, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cor Kalkman Patient Safety Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julie K Johnson Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lisette Schoonhoven Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Myrra Vernooij-Dassen Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsDepartment of Primary Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsKalorama Foundation, Nijmegen, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hub Wollersheim Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Department of Primary Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Google scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Gijs Hesselink, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 114 IQ healthcare, Nijmegen 6500 HB, The Netherlands; G.Hesselink{at}iq.umcn.nl
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Hesselink G, Flink M, Olsson M, et al
Are patients discharged with care? A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences of patients, family members and care providers
BMJ Quality & Safety 2012;21:i39-i49.

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  • Accepted August 11, 2012
  • First published November 1, 2012.
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July 31, 2016

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