What is important in evaluating health care quality? An international comparison of user views

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Groenewegen, Peter P ^a   Kerssens, Jan J ^a   Sixma, Herman J ^a   Van Eijk, Ingrid Der ^b   Boerma, Wienke G W ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 18044398748     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-5-16     Document Type: Article

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