How well do patient and general practitioner agree about the content of consultations?

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 149-152

  Fagerberg, Christina Ringmann ^a   Kragstrup, Jakob ^b   Støvring, Henrik ^b   Rasmussen, Niels Kristian ^b  

^a Research Unit of General Practice   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agreement; Communication; Family practice; Patient satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 0032861619     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028134399750002557     Document Type: Article

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