After adoption: sustaining the innovation. A case study of disseminating the hospital elder life program.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on September 01, 2005

Authors

Elizabeth H Bradley1, Tashonna R Webster, Dorothy Baker, Mark Schlesinger, Sharon K Inouye

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. elizabeth.bradley@yale.edu

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