Should doctors wear white coats? The patient's perspective [2]

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 343-345

  Tiwari, Alok ^a,b   Abeysinghe, Neil ^a   Hall, Alison ^a   Perera, Prasanna ^a   Ackroyd, Jenny S ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doctor's uniform; Questionnaire; White coat

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOTHING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0034840410     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2001.00293.x     Document Type: Letter

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