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Home sweet home — examining the interface between hospital and home

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Most episodes of hospitalisation will incorporate some form of discharge planning in the quest for enhancing clinical practice and facilitating satisfactory transitional care for the child and family. (Smith, 1995). The outcome of discharge planning can have irrevocable effects on both the child and family, so it is essential to get it right. There has been much discussion regarding how and when this should happen, but is it rhetoric or reality?

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  1. School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Southampton, UK

    Edward Alan Glasper (Professor of Nursing and Academic Head of Child Health Studies) & Lorraine Ireland (Lecturer in Child Health Studies) (Professor of Nursing and Academic Head of Child Health Studies) &  (Lecturer in Child Health Studies)

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Lane, M., Baker, S. (2000). Home sweet home — examining the interface between hospital and home. In: Glasper, E.A., Ireland, L. (eds) Evidence-based Child Health Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-98239-6_18

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