Quality management: Patients reflections on health care at outpatient clinic of internal medicine department

Collegium Antropologicum

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 637-641

  Ljubičić, Neven ^a   Boban, Marko ^a   Gaćina, Petar ^a   Adžija, Jasminka ^a   Benceković, Željka ^a   Rajkoviv́, Ana ^a  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Patient orientated care; Quality of care; Satisfaction with medical services

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70149109424     PISSN: 03506134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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