Determinants of consumers' healthcare-provider choice

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-33

  Al Omar, Badran A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Hospital choice; Patient's choice; Patients' expectations; Quality of services; Stepwise discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745529215     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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