Communication skills to improve patient satisfaction and quality of care

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Fortin, Auguste H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural competence; Culture adherence; Patient centered care; Physician patient relations

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036763640     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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