QUALICOPC, a multi-country study evaluating quality, costs and equity in primary care

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schäfer, Willemijn La ^a   Boerma, Wienke Gw ^a   Kringos, Dionne S ^a   De Maeseneer, Jan ^b   Greß, Stefan ^c   Heinemann, Stephanie ^c   Rotar Pavlic, Danica ^d   Seghieri, Chiara ^e   Švab, Igor ^d   Van Den Berg, Michael J ^f,g   Vainieri, Milena ^e   Westert, Gert P ^h   Willems, Sara ^b   Groenewegen, Peter P ^a,i  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c FULDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^g TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS;

EID: 80054713689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-115     Document Type: Article

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