Public Views on Healthcare Performance Indicators and Patient Choice
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Public views on healthcare performance indicators and patient choice.
Patients on certain waiting lists in the UK National Health Service (NHS) are now offered the choice of persevering with their home hospital or switching to another hospital where they will be treated on a guaranteed date. Such decisions require knowledge of performance. We used facilitated focus groups to investigate the views of patients and members of the public on publication of information...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107680309600707