Measuring patients' medical care preferences: Care seeking versus self-treating

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 133-140

  Ganther, Julie M ^a   Wiederholt, Joseph B ^b   Kreling, David H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Health attitudes; Health care utilization; Patient preferences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CARE; SELF MEDICATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CARE; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0035050898     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/02729890122062389     Document Type: Article

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