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Table 3 Sample of 10 lines for [DISCHARGE] in Q1 relating to concept of timing

From: Adult patient perspectives on receiving hospital discharge letters: a corpus analysis of patient interviews

it was affecting my kidney I was

discharged

after five hours of waiting with the person

one it was (.) not that I was

discharged

very quickly because I was out of the

I say to get the medication and

discharge

letter it was more than twenty four hours

3 weeks from the date I was

discharged

uh before the surgery received any

hanging around to wait for these

discharge

papers and that’s what I was waiting

a whole day in hospital for that

discharge

letter to come from the doctors and my

little writing (.) yeah [DATE] they

discharged

me and I didn’t have to hang

(.) to be fair when you get

discharged

from hospital all you are interested in is

to wait nearly 9 hours for that

discharge

letter so that was probably the worst part

going to be ready where is the

discharge

letter because we didn’t know what the