Patients' accounts of being removed from their general practitioner's list: Qualitative study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7402, 2003, Pages 1316-1319

  Stokes, Tim ^a   Dixon Woods, Mary ^a   Windridge, Kate C ^a   McKinley, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT RIGHT; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREAT;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REFUSAL TO TREAT; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0038039516     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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