Nursing Outlook
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 95-103 , March 2005

Discharge planning, nursing home placement, and the Internet

  • Eric J. Collier, MS, RN

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Eric J. Collier, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing,University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 455, San Francisco, CA 94118
    • Mr. Collier was supported by a pre-doctoral fellowship from NIH/NINR (Grant Number 1 F31 NR08673-01)
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  • Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD

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 This article and the development of California Nursing Home Search Website, was funded by the California HealthCare Foundation. (Grant Number 03-1342)

PII: S0029-6554(05)00021-7

doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2004.02.002

Nursing Outlook
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 95-103 , March 2005