Key Care Provision Aspects That Affect Care Transition in the Long-Term Care Systems: Preliminary Review Findings
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Consequences and Reasons for Suboptimal Care Transitions
1.2. What Is Known about Optimizing Care Transitions
1.3. Why Focusing on Care Provision Aspects as Factors of Care Transition
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Wieczorek, E.; Kocot, E.; Evers, S.; Sowada, C.; Pavlova, M. Key Care Provision Aspects That Affect Care Transition in the Long-Term Care Systems: Preliminary Review Findings. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 6402. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116402
Wieczorek E, Kocot E, Evers S, Sowada C, Pavlova M. Key Care Provision Aspects That Affect Care Transition in the Long-Term Care Systems: Preliminary Review Findings. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(11):6402. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116402
Chicago/Turabian StyleWieczorek, Estera, Ewa Kocot, Silvia Evers, Christoph Sowada, and Milena Pavlova. 2022. "Key Care Provision Aspects That Affect Care Transition in the Long-Term Care Systems: Preliminary Review Findings" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 11: 6402. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116402
APA StyleWieczorek, E., Kocot, E., Evers, S., Sowada, C., & Pavlova, M. (2022). Key Care Provision Aspects That Affect Care Transition in the Long-Term Care Systems: Preliminary Review Findings. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6402. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116402