Patient and primary care physician satisfaction with chest pain unit and routine care

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 827-833

  Goodacre, Steve W ^a,b   Quinney, Deborah ^a   Revill, Sue ^a   Morris, Francis ^a   Capewell, Simon ^a   Nicholl, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Medical Care Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chest pain; consumer satisfaction; emergency services (hospital)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHEST PAIN; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CORONARY DISEASE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 3242707758     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.02.525     Document Type: Article

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