Geriatric patients' expectations of their physicians: Findings from a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Saleem, Taimur ^a   Khalid, Umair ^a   Qidwai, Waris ^b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; PAKISTAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINE INCONTINENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 72749083421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-205     Document Type: Article

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