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Wales’ participation in the OECD PaRIS survey: exploring the logistics of a large-scale patient-reported outcome survey
IJQHC Communications, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Start page: lyag025
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Background: The Organisation for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) undertook the Patient-Reported Indicator Survey (PaRIS) to understand if current healthcare delivery and policy were meeting people’s needs. Although the UK as a whole is an OECD member, Wales participated in the PaRIS...
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