"Because Somebody Cared about Me. That's How It Changed Things": Homeless, Chronically Ill Patients' Perspectives on Case Management

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Davis, Elizabeth ^a   Tamayo, Aracely ^b   Fernandez, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CASE MANAGER; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIETY;

CASE MANAGEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84866979764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045980     Document Type: Article

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