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The early maternal discharge clinical pathway: Health care's wave of the future

Maternal Child Care Healthreach Homecare Hospice Harrisburg Hospital Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Susan Rossi

Maternal/Child Health VNA of Lancaster County Lancaster, Pennsylvania

With increasing demands from external sources, maternal child providers are facing the chal lenges of accurate and timely assessments. Documentation for both legalities and reimburse ment can be accomplished through the clinical pathway. This article describes how one organi zation developed its pathways and how another developed its documents. Key words: early maternal discharge, maternal/newborn pathway, clinical pathway, postpartum clinical path way

Home Health Care Management & Practice, Vol. 7, No. 3, 66-70 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/108482239500700310


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