Sustainability and scalability of a volunteer-based primary care intervention (Health TAPESTRY): A mixed-methods analysis

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Kastner, Monika ^a   Sayal, Radha ^a   Oliver, Doug ^b   Straus, Sharon E ^a,c   Dolovich, Lisa ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Primary care; Qualitative study; Scalability; Survey; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AGED; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; VOLUNTEER;

AGED; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 85026673775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2468-9     Document Type: Article

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