Evolution of patients' complaints in a French university hospital: Is there a contribution of a law regarding patients' rights?

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Giugliani, Camila ^a,b   Gault, Nathalie ^a   Fares, Valia ^a,c   Jegu, Jérémie ^a   Trolli, Sergio Eleni Dit ^a   Biga, Julie ^a   Vidal Trecan, Gwenaelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Health Sciences of Porto Alegre   (Brazil)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LAW; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CHILD; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; FRANCE; INFANT; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT RIGHTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449089404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-141     Document Type: Article

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