Evaluating Chest Pain: The Patient’s Presentation Style Alters the Physician’s Diagnostic Approach

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 153, Issue 17, 1993, Pages 1991-1995

  Birdwell, Brian G ^a   Herbers, Jerome E ^c   Kroenke, Kurt ^b  

^a Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHEST PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; STEREOTYPING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0027312623     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1993.00410170065006     Document Type: Article

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