Patients' attitudes to co-payments for general practitioner services: Do they reflect the prevailing system?

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 197-201

  O'Reilly, Dermot ^a   O'Neill, Ciaran ^b   O'Dowd, Tom ^c   Galway, Karen ^a   Gilliland, Andrew ^a   Kelly, Alan ^c   Murphy, Andrew ^d   Shryane, Ethna ^d   Steele, Keith ^a   Bury, Gerry ^e  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST SHARING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; STATE MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36749040888     PISSN: 13558196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/135581907782101589     Document Type: Article

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