Ethical conflicts over access to services: Patient effects and worker influence in home health

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1-21

  Egan, Marcia ^a   Kadushin, Goldie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Ethical conflict; Ethics; Home health; Influence; Managed care; Strategy(ies)

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MANAGED CARE; PATIENT CARE; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036378582     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v35n03_01     Document Type: Review

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