You need them to know your ways: Service users’ views about valued dimensions of home care

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 85-98

  Aronson, Jane ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evaluation of services; Quality of care; Service user participation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; STANDARD;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; ONTARIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 1642291762     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v22n04_05     Document Type: Article

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