Does patient-centred care mean risk aversion and risk ignoring?: Unintended consequences of NPM reforms

International Journal of Public Sector Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 260-271

  Andersson, Thomas ^a   Liff, Roy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

New public management; Patient care; Patient centred care; Patients; Psychiatry; Risk management; Risk substitution; Risk tradeoffs; Risk transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861319086     PISSN: 09513558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513551211244098     Document Type: Article

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