Which long-term care residents should be asked to complete a customer satisfaction survey?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 257-263

  Van De Water, Margaret S ^b   Kutner, Michael ^c   Parmelee, Patricia A ^a,b   Johnson, Theodore ^a,b  

^a ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Long term care; Reliability; Satisfaction measures; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0141856280     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-8610(04)70370-9     Document Type: Article

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