Patients' and health professionals' views on primary care for people with serious mental illness: Focus group study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 330, Issue 7500, 2005, Pages 1122-1126

  Lester, Helen E ^a   Tritter, Jonathan Q ^b   Sorohan, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSIBILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE PRACTITIONER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 18744380998     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38440.418426.8F     Document Type: Article

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