A survey of recipient client physician satisfaction with teleoncology services originating from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 250-254

  Brigden, Malcolm ^a   Minty, Alana ^b   Pilatzke, Susan ^c   Della Vidova, Lori ^c   Sherrington, Laurie ^d   McPhail, Karen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c THUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Ontario Telemedicine Network   (Canada)

Author keywords

Client physicians; Client satisfaction; Teleoncology services

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CLIENT PHYSICIANS; CLIENT SATISFACTION; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; TELEONCOLOGY SERVICES;

TELEMEDICINE;

ARTICLE; CANADA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; TELEMEDICINE; TELEONCOLOGY;

HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; ONTARIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIANS; RURAL POPULATION; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 42449087336     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2007.0048     Document Type: Article

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