Effect of a nurse team coordinator on outcomes for hospitalized medicine patients

AJ Forster, HD Clark, A Menard, N Dupuis… - The American journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Several randomized trials have found that discharge planning improves
outcomes for hospitalized patients. We do not know if adding a clinical nurse specialist
(CNS) to physician teams in hospitals that already have discharge planning services makes
a difference. METHODS: In 2 teaching hospitals, patients were randomly assigned to regular
hospital care or care with a clinical nurse specialist. The clinical nurse specialist facilitated
hospital care by retrieving preadmission information, arranging in-hospital consultations and …
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