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Patient empowerment can lead to improvements in health-care quality

Frederico C Guanais argues that the expansion of primary care in the Americas is not enough to guarantee quality and effectiveness of health services. He talks to Andréia Azevedo Soares.

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5487978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28670013
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.030717
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spelling pubmed-54879782017-07-01 Patient empowerment can lead to improvements in health-care quality Bull World Health Organ News Frederico C Guanais argues that the expansion of primary care in the Americas is not enough to guarantee quality and effectiveness of health services. He talks to Andréia Azevedo Soares. World Health Organization 2017-07-01 2017-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5487978/ /pubmed/28670013 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.030717 Text en (c) 2017 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5487978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28670013
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.030717