'I' and 'we': A concordancing analysis of how doctors and patients use first person pronouns in primary care consultations

Family Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 484-488

  Skelton, John R ^a   Wearn, Andy M ^a   Hobbs, F D Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; General practice; Language; Lexical concordance; Patient centredness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036772252     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/19.5.484     Document Type: Article

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