Structure, process or outcome: Which contributes most to patients' overall assessment of healthcare quality?

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 326-331

  Rademakers, Jany ^a   Delnoij, Diana ^b   De Boer, Dolf ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for Consumer Experience in Health Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HERNIA; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; KNEE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL DISC HERNIATION; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953790940     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs.2010.042358     Document Type: Article

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