Does Communication with Consumers and Carers need to Improve?

The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-11

  Prictor, Megan ^a   Hill, Sophie ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Communication; Communication problems; Complaints; Health system; Litigation; Medical error; Participation; Patients

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878111639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346855.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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