Individualized care in a Finnish healthcare organization
: Suhonen R, Valimaki M, Katajisto J
Publisher: BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
: 2000
: Journal of Clinical Nursing
: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
: J CLIN NURS
: 9
: 2
: 218
: 227
: 10
: 0962-1067
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2702.2000.00362.x
Patients' age and the type of ward were associated with the provision of individualized care: patients aged 65 or over were more satisfied than younger age groups with the way in which their personal life situation had been taken into account. Patients from the gynaecological ward thought, more than patients from the surgical ward, that their situation had been taken into account during hospitalization.