Assessment of patients' tendency to give a positive or negative rating to healthcare

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 374-379

  Agoritsas, T ^a   Lubbeke, A ^a   Schiesari, L ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EPISODE OF CARE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70350337130     PISSN: 14753898     EISSN: 14753901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2008.028175     Document Type: Article

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