Community hospitals - The place of local service provision in a modernising NHS: An integrative thematic literature review

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Heaney, David ^a   Black, Corri ^a   O'Donnell, Catherine A ^b   Stark, Cameron ^a   Van Teijlingen, Edwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; NURSE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL RESTRUCTURING; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 33847241523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-309     Document Type: Article

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