Empirical Approaches to Health Care Ethics

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 159-165

  Sugarman, Jeremy ^a   Pearlman, Robert A ^b   Taylor, Holly A ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies and particular outcomes; Empirical approach to health care ethics; Qualitative approach using focus groups; Quantitative methods for numerical answers; Semi structured interviews in information gathering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847782431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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