Patient Satisfaction as a Function of Emergency Department Previsit Expectations

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Toma, Ghazwan ^b   Triner, Wayne ^a,b   McNutt, Louise Ann ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL;

EID: 68649110261     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.01.024     Document Type: Article

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