Why do patients and families request transfers to tertiary care? A qualitative study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1846-1853

  Dy, Sydney Morss ^a   Rubin, Haya R ^a   Lehmann, Harold P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Hospital transfer; Influence diagram; Patient decision making; Tertiary care; USA

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

EID: 22144472174     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.03.037     Document Type: Article

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