How satisfied are Portuguese citizens with public hospitals' service?

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 522-535

  Fonseca, Jaime R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency; Healthcare quality; Hospitals; Latent segment model; Patient satisfaction; Patients; Portugal; Public hospitals

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PORTUGAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880780395     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJHCQA-02-2012-0024     Document Type: Article

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