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Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003716Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 20 October 2003see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:
  1. Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2010 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Anne Johnson

    Correspondence to: Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    [email protected]

  • Jayne Sandford

    Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

  • Jessica Tyndall

    Gus Fraenkel Medical Library, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Contributions of authors

Anne Johnson (AJ) is the guarantor of the review. AJ obtained funding for the review, co authored the protocol with JS, and in conjunction with JS, screened the search results, identified papers needing retrieval, screened the retrieved papers against the inclusion criteria, appraised the quality of the papers, abstracted data from the papers, contacted the authors of the papers to obtain additional data, analysed and interpreted the data and wrote the review.

Jayne Sandford (JS) co‐authored the protocol with AJ and in conjunction with AJ, screened the search results, identified papers needing retrieval, screened the retrieved papers against the inclusion criteria, appraised the quality of the papers, abstracted data from the papers, contacted the authors of the papers to obtain additional data, entered data into RevMan, analysed and interpreted the data and wrote the review.

Jessica Tyndall (JT) developed the search strategies and supervised the searches.

Anne Johnson conducted the update of the review. Jessica Tyndall developed the search strategy for the update.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University of South Australia, Australia.

External sources

  • Bursary, Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group, La Trobe University, Australia.

Declarations of interest

None known

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Sandy Oliver for her time and expertise in advising us on the development of this review. Thankyou to Madeleine King for statistical advice and anonymous referees and editors of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group. Judy Stoelwinder assisted in developing the search strategy. Megan Kyriacou assisted by undertaking the searches and retrieving the papers for the original review, and Shirley Ward assisted by undertaking the searches in the update in September 2005. This review was peer reviewed by ten people which included all members of the Consumers and Communication Review Group editiorial team and staff, and three external referees, one of whom had consumer expertise.

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2003 Oct 20

Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home

Review

Anne Johnson, Jayne Sandford, Jessica Tyndall

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003716