Effect of a primary-care-based epilepsy specialist nurse service on quality of care from the patients' perspective: Quasi-experimental evaluation

Seizure

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-7

  Mills, Nicola ^a   Bachmann, Max O ^a   Harvey, Ian ^a   Hine, Iain ^b   McGowan, Mervyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b North West Locality Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Health services research; Patients' perspective; Primary secondary care interface; Quality of health care; Specialist nurse

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0033014266     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/seiz.1998.0232     Document Type: Article

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