Patient satisfaction with emergency house calls

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 367-375

  Perneger, Thomas V ^a   Vouilloz, Marie ^b   Greder, Bernard ^b   Barros, José ^b   Froidevaux, Jasmina ^b   Froidevaux, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SOS Médecins   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; House calls; Patient satisfaction; Reliability and validity; Treatment effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SWITZERLAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030656942     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/9.5.367     Document Type: Article

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