Cover: Review of Uniform Assessment Items and Tools for Ambulatory and Hospital Settings

Review of Uniform Assessment Items and Tools for Ambulatory and Hospital Settings

Published in: Uniform Patient Assessment for Post-Acute Care: Final Report / Edited by Andrew Kramer and Danielle Holthaus, (Aurora, CO: Health Care Policy and Research, Jan. 25, 2006), Chapter 3, p. 39-45

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2006

by Debra Saliba

This review will focus on those assessment domains and related items that might further the potential goals for a hospital discharge assessment instrument, and will focus on domains, items within domains, and examples of existing assessment tools.

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