Seeking quality improvement in primary care in Crete, Greece: The first actions

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 599-603

  Lionis, Christos ^a   Tsiraki, Mariza ^b   Bardis, Vassilios ^c   Philalithis, Anastasios ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Agios Nikolaos   (Greece)

^c Regional Health and Welfare System of Crete   (Greece)

Author keywords

Family practice; Health care quality, access, and evaluation; Primary health care; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

GREECE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 9644269175     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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