Health care providers, institutions, and patients [electronic resource] : changing patterns of care provision and care delivery / edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. Kronenfeld, Jennie J. Medical personnel and patient. Medical care Decision making. Older people Medical care. Terminal care. R727.3 .H4173 2000 610.69/6 22 Includes bibliographical references. Description based on print version record. This volume explores issues connected with health care providers, institutions, and patients. The focus of many of the articles is on changing patterns of care delivery and provision of care, as it affects these important groups of actors within the health care system. The articles range from those that focus on more specialized groups of patients, such as the elderly, to those that focus on people who deliver health care services to those that deal with more general issues of the restructuring of the US health care system. Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, c2000. c2000. 2000 Text 1 online resource (xix, 249 p.) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0275-4959/17 eng Research in the sociology of health care, 0275-4959 ; v. 17 Research in the sociology of health care ; v. 17. Health care providers, institutions, and patients. Health care providers, institutions, and patients.