Supporting work practices through telehealth: Impact on nurses in peripheral regions

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gagnon, Marie Pierre ^a,b   Paré, Guy ^c   Pollender, Hugo ^a   Duplantie, Julie ^b   Côté, José ^d   Fortin, Jean Paul ^b   Labadie, Rita ^e   Duplàa, Emmanuel ^f   Thifault, Marie Claude ^f   Courcy, François ^g   McGinn, Carrie Anna ^a   Ly, Birama Apho ^a   Trépanier, Amélie ^a   Malo, François Bernard ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Centre de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Grand Littoral   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; NURSE; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NURSES; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENTS, NURSING; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 79551590448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-27     Document Type: Article

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