Breaking bad news and personality assessment

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-160

  Rudnick, A ^a   Ezra, Y ^b   Melamed, E ^b  

^a Israel and Whitby Mental Hlth Ctr   (Canada)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assessment; Breaking bad news; Personality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LIAISON PSYCHIATRY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0034284332     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(99)00106-8     Document Type: Article

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