Meeting information needs to facilitate decision making: Report cards for people with disabilities

Health Expectations

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 278-285

  Palsbo, Susan E ^a   Kroll, Thilo ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Plans Survey; Disabilities; Information dissemination; Medicaid; Patient satisfaction; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAID; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547594152     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2007.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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