What do patients want and do we want to know? A review of patients' requests of psychiatric services

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 321-327

  Noble, L M ^a,b   Douglas, B C ^a   Newman, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Wolfson Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer satisfaction; Mental disorders therapy; Physician patient relations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032696121     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1999.tb10874.x     Document Type: Article

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