A qualitative study of patient experiences of decentralized acute healthcare services

Objective: Municipality acute wards (MAWs) have recently been launched in Norway as an alternative to hospitalizations, and are aimed at providing treatment for patients who otherwise would have been hospitalized. The objective of this study was to explore how patients normally admitted to hospitals...

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Main Authors: Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen, Lilliana Del Busso, Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Waleed Ghanima, Paul Barach, Lars-Petter Jelsness-Jørgensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016-07-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2016.1222200