Choosing between public and private or between hospital and primary care: Responsiveness, patient-centredness and prescribing patterns in outpatient consultations in Bangkok

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-89

  Pongsupap, Yongyuth ^a   Lerberghe, Wim Van ^b  

^a National Health Security Office   (Thailand)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Consumer protection; Cost; Medicalization; Outpatient care; Patient centred care; Prescribing; Public private; Responsiveness; Simulated patients

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; CONSUMER; COST CONTROL; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG USE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MARKET; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PROTECTION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SIMULATION; THAILAND;

AMBULATORY CARE; COST OF ILLNESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; THAILAND;

ASIA; BANGKOK; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 33644891355     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01532.x     Document Type: Article

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