Medical oncology patients' preferences with regard to health care: Development of a patient-driven questionnaire

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1708-1713

  Wessels, H ^a   de Graeff, A ^a   Wynia, K ^b   Sixma, H J ^c   de Heus, M ^a   Schipper, M ^d   Woltjer, G T G J ^e   Teunissen, S C C M ^a   Voest, E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Integraal Kankercentrum Midden N   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Patient preferences; Patient centred care; Quality of care; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING COMPETENCE; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 70349645156     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdp044     Document Type: Article

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