Health Care Decision-Making - A Focus Group Study Involving Health Professionals and the General Public

Qualitative Research Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 43-58

  Shrimpton, Bradley ^a   McKie, John ^b   Hurworth, Rosalind ^a   Bell, Catherine ^a   Richardson, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Focus groups; Health resources; Public consultation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899438056     PISSN: 14439883     EISSN: 14480980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3316/QRJ0802043     Document Type: Review

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