Patient satisfaction - Politically correct fashion of the nineties or a valuable measure of outcome?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 193-195

  Schug, S A ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PUBLICATION; RATING SCALE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA;

EID: 0035007227     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/rapm.2001.21433     Document Type: Editorial

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