What is the relationship between patients' and clinicians' reports of the outcomes of elective surgery?

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 174-182

  Bream, Elizabeth ^a   Black, Nick ^b  

^a NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH STATUS; HERNIOPLASTY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VARICOSIS; VEIN SURGERY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650751790     PISSN: 13558196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jhsrp.2009.008115     Document Type: Review

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