Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire: Development and testing of a questionnaire that measures continuity of care

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1391-1399

  Uijen, Annemarie A ^a   Schellevis, Franois G ^b,c   Van Den Bosch, Wil J H M ^a   Mokkink, Henk G A ^a   Van Weel, Chris ^a   Schers, Henk J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuity of patient care; Factor analysis, statistical; Health care surveys; Measurement instrument; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIJMEGEN CONTINUITY QUESTIONNAIRE; PATIENT CARE; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 80055024552     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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