The quality of discharge teaching and care coordination strongly predicts patient readiness for hospital discharge, which is associated with better post-discharge coping and fewer readmissions.
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Optimizing discharge teaching may boost readiness and curb readmissions; leaves open causal effects pending prospective trials.
Weiss et al. (2007) studied this question.
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