Women as consumers of maternity care: Measuring "satisfaction" or "dissatisfaction"?

Birth

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-76

  Redshaw, Maggie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONSUMER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SATISFACTION;

EID: 40149097461     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2007.00215.x     Document Type: Note

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