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Improving Care Transitions: The Patient Perspective

Courtney Cawthon Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Sheena Walia College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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Chandra Y. Osborn Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Kurt J. Niesner Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, HSR&D Targeted Research Enhancement Program for Patient Healthcare Behavior, VA Tennessee Valley Health System, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Jeffrey L. Schnipper BWH Hospitalist Service and Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Sunil Kripalani Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine, and the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 312-324 | Published online: 03 Oct 2012

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