General practitioner attitudes toward mandatory reporting of doctor-patient sexual abuse

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 1060, 1998, Pages 53-55

  White, Gillian Eyres ^a   Coverdale, John ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEW ZEALAND; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; LEGAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

EID: 0032570382     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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