Physician - Patient interaction and coping with cancer: The doctor as informer or supporter?

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 174-178

  Finset, Arnstein ^a   Smedstad, Liv Marit ^a   Øgar, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030885183     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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