Patient satisfaction with rheumatology practitioner clinics: Can we achieve concordance by meeting patients' information needs and encouraging participatory decision making?

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 110-114

  Lim, Anita Y N ^a   Ellis, Corinne ^b   Brooksby, Alan ^b   Gaffney, Karl ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compliance; Concordance; Decision making; Satisfaction; Side effects

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; GOLD; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONOTHERAPY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 34247390402     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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