Met or matched expectations: What accounts for a successful back pain consultation in primary care?

Health Expectations

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 143-154

  Georgy, Ehab E ^a   Carr, Eloise C J ^a   Breen, Alan C ^b  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLO EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Back pain; Expectations; Matched; Met; Theory development

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BACK PAIN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BACK PAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877667747     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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