Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives

Health Services Research

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 1248-1272

  Grob, Rachel ^a,b   Schlesinger, Mark ^c   Parker, Andrew M ^d   Shaller, Dale ^e   Barre, Lacey Rose ^f   Martino, Steven C ^d   Finucane, Melissa L ^d   Rybowski, Lise ^g   Cerully, Jennifer L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Shaller Consulting   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Severyn Group   (United States)

Author keywords

consumers; patient experiences; Patient narratives; patient centered care; public reporting; qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NARRATIVE; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; INTERNET; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

HUMANS; INTERNET; NARRATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84969663920     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12503     Document Type: Article

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