Quality and general practitioner satisfaction with reply letters for dementia patients

Quality in Primary Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-170

  Kada, Susan ^a   Nygaard, Harald A ^b   Kada, Rajendiran ^c   Laura, Toralv ^c   Billsback, Unni ^c   Geitung, Jonn T ^a  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Kavli's Dementia Research Centre ^*

Author keywords

Communication; Dementia; Geriatrics; Primary health care; Quality; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SATISFACTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 47549097195     PISSN: 14791072     EISSN: 14791064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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