Measures of quality, costs and equity in primary health care instruments developed to analyse and compare primary care in 35 countries

Quality in Primary Care

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 67-79

  Schäfer, Willemijn L A ^a   Boerma, Wienke G W ^a   Kringos, Dionne S ^a,b   De Ryck, Evelyne ^c   Greß, Stefan ^d   Heinemann, Stephanie ^d   Murante, Anna Maria ^e   Rotar Pavlic, Danica ^f   Schellevis, François G ^a,g   Seghieri, Chiara ^e   Van Den Berg, Micheal J ^h,i   Westert, Gert P ^j   Willems, Sara ^b   Groenewegen, Peter P ^a,k  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d FULDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

ⁱ TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^k UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Health care surveys; Health services research; Outcome assessment (health care); Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879350431     PISSN: 14791072     EISSN: 14791064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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