The patient's perspective of the quality of breast cancer care. The development of an instrument to measure quality of care through focus groups and concept mapping with breast cancer patients

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1257-1264

  de Kok, Mascha ^a   Scholte, Rachel W ^a   Sixma, Herman J ^b   van der Weijden, Trudy ^c   Spijkers, Karin F ^b   van de Velde, Cornelis J H ^d   Roukema, Jan Anne ^e   van der Ent, Fred W ^f   Bell, Antoine V R J ^g   von Meyenfeldt, Maarten F ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^f Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

^g LAURENTIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Evaluation studies; Focus groups; Health care quality assessment; Health services research; Multicenter study; Patient satisfaction; Qualitative research; Quality indicators; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONCEPT MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34248352569     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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