Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 337-343 , March 2010

Reporting quality of nursing home care by an internet report card

  • Noémi C. Van Nie

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Health Care and Nursing Science, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 433881765; fax: +31 433884162.
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  • Louk J.M. Hollands
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  • Jan P.H. Hamers

Received 6 November 2009 ,Revised 29 January 2010 ,Accepted 2 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.02.001

Patient Education and Counseling
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