Patient involvement in health care will improve quality
BMJPublished 13 July 2006Open access
Robert Hunter, Rosie Cameron
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It is agreed that it is a generalisation too far by Rao et al to state that patients should be asked to provide detailed reports of their experiences of clinical care during a particular consultation.
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EDITOR—Coulter suggests that patients should be asked to provide detailed reports of their experiences of clinical care during a particular consultation and that they should be asked about what actually occurred rather than to evaluate what occurred.1 We agree that it is a generalisation too far by Rao et al to state that patients …
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Health ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceBusiness, Management and Accounting
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