Physician Practice Styles and Patient Outcomes: Differences between Family Practice and General Internal Medicine

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 879-891

  Bertakis, Klea D ^a   Callahan, Edward J ^a   Helms, L Jay ^b   Azari, Rahman ^b   Bobbins, John A ^a   Miller, Jill ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Interactional analysis; Patient health outcomes; Patient satisfaction; Physician practice style; Physician patient relationship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; COUNSELING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032089203     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199806000-00011     Document Type: Article

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