Physician-patient communication in the emergency department, Part 2: Communication strategies for specific situations

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1146-1153

  Totten, Vicken Y ^a,b   Knopp, Robert ^a   Helpern, Katherine ^a   Hauswald, Mark ^a   Vicellio, Peter ^a   Brennan, John ^a   Rosenzweig, Steve ^a   Jesionek, Paul ^a  

^a Society for Academic Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bell's palsy; dermatology; herpes zoster; herpes zoster oticus; medical education; patient interview; physician patient communication; Ramsay Hunt syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMENTIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG ABUSE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTOXICATION; LANGUAGE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SIGN LANGUAGE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0029805378     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03378.x     Document Type: Article

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