Cross-border healthcare in Europe: Clarifying patients' rights

BMJ

Volumn 342, Issue 7793, 2011, Pages 364-367

  Legido Quigley, Helena ^a   Passarani, Ilaria ^d   Knai, Cecile ^a   Busse, Reinhard ^b   Palm, Willy ^c   Wismar, Matthias ^c   McKee, Martin ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY ON HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POLICIES   (United Kingdom)

^d London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL TOURISM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL SECURITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAVEL;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL TOURISM; PATIENT RIGHTS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL;

EID: 79951664888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d296     Document Type: Review

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