Patient, consumer, client, or customer: What do people want to be called?

Health Expectations

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-351

  Deber, Raisa B ^a,c   Kraetschmer, Nancy ^a   Urowitz, Sara ^a   Sharpe, Natasha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BMO Financial Group   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Client; Consumer; Decision making; Participation; Patient; Patient physician relationships

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE DISEASE; RATING SCALE; RECIPIENT; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 27844547946     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2005.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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