Health care relationships in context: An analysis of three ethnographies

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 957-973

  Varcoe, Colleen ^a   Rodney, Patricia ^a   McCormick, Janice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Compliance; Ethical practice; Health care culture; Social judgment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; METAPHOR; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142061075     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732303253483     Document Type: Article

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