'Client satisfaction' - Guidelines for assessing the quality of leprosy services from the clients' perspective

Leprosy Review

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-119

  Van Dijk, Marieke ^c   Visschedijk, Jan ^a   Van der Kwaak, Anke ^b  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c KIT ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRAZIL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEPROSY; NEPAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

BRAZIL; HUMANS; LEPROSY; NEPAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0038270683     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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