Medical tourism: A new role for nursing?

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ben Natan, Merav ^a   Ben Sefer, Ellen ^b   Ehrenfeld, Malka ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accreditation; Criteria for selecting medical tourism sites; International healthcare costs; Medical tourism; Nursing role in medical tourism; Quality of care in medical tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549111356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10913734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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