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Hospital Discharge and the Transition Home for Poor Patients: “I Knew I Couldn’t Do What They Were Asking Me”

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This article was not supported by any external grants or funds. Drs. Bernheim and Ross receive support from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop and maintain hospital performance measures that are used for public reporting. Dr. Ross is also supported by the National Institute on Aging (K08 AG032886) and by the American Federation for Aging Research through the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award Program.

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Dr. Ross is a member of a scientific advisory board for FAIR Health, Inc.

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  1. Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1 Church Street, Suite 200, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Susannah M. Bernheim MD, MHS & Joseph S. Ross MD, MHS

  2. Section of General Internal Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Susannah M. Bernheim MD, MHS & Joseph S. Ross MD, MHS

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Correspondence to Susannah M. Bernheim MD, MHS.

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Bernheim, S.M., Ross, J.S. Hospital Discharge and the Transition Home for Poor Patients: “I Knew I Couldn’t Do What They Were Asking Me”. J GEN INTERN MED 29, 269–270 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-013-2698-4

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