Interactional Synchrony, Positivity, and Patient Satisfaction in the Physician-Patient Relationship

Medical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1158-1163

  Koss, Tamara ^a   Rosenthal, Robert ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0031280348     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199711000-00007     Document Type: Article

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