Evolving Comprehensive VA Women's Health Care: Patient Characteristics, Needs, and Preferences

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages S120-S129

  Mengeling, Michelle A ^a   Sadler, Anne G ^b   Torner, James ^c   Booth, Brenda M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; VETERANS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 80155198448     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2011.04.021     Document Type: Article

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