Understanding service user-defined continuity of care and its relationship to health and social measures: A cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sweeney, Angela ^a   Rose, Diana ^b   Clement, Sarah ^b   Jichi, Fatima ^b   Jones, Ian Rees ^c   Burns, Tom ^d   Catty, Jocelyn ^e   McLaren, Susan ^f   Wykes, Til ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuity of care; Health and social outcomes; Service users

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84861950035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-145     Document Type: Article

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