Patient empowerment as a component of health system reforms: Rights, benefits and vested interests

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-187

  Colombo, Cinzia ^a   Moja, Lorenzo ^b   Gonzalez Lorenzo, Marien ^b,c   Liberati, Alessandro ^d   Mosconi, Paola ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Canary Islands Foundation for Health and Research FUNCIS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conflict of interest; Consumer advocacy; Consumer participation; Decision making; Health care reform

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84859463803     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-012-0757-1     Document Type: Review

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