Hospitalisation process seen by patients and health care professionals

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 571-576

  Rentsch, Denis ^a,c   Luthy, Christophe ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^b   Allaz, Anne Françoise ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Clin de Med Int de Rehab   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Hospitalisation; Patient centred care; Professional patient relations; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; SWITZERLAND;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; REHABILITATION CENTERS; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0037941392     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00404-5     Document Type: Article

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