Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Strengthening the voices of individual service users in health-care organizations

Health Expectations

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 138-147

  Abbott, Stephen ^a   Meyer, Julienne ^a   Bentley, Jane ^a   Lanceley, Anne ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information and advice services; Patient and public involvement; Patient satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LISTENING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDIATOR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ADVICE AND LIAISON SERVICES; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LONDON; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 33646712961     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2006.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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