Measuring cancer care coordination: Development and validation of a questionnaire for patients

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Young, Jane M ^a,b   Walsh, Jennifer ^b   Butow, Phyllis N ^b   Solomon, Michael J ^b   Shaw, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Coordination of cancer care; Psychometrics; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER CARE COORDINATION; CANCER CARE COORDINATION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PATIENTS; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960554466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-298     Document Type: Article

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