Breaking up is never easy: GP's accounts of removing patients from their lists

Family Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 628-634

  Stokes, Tim ^a   Dixon Woods, Mary ^a   McKinley, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doctor patient relationship; General practice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REFUSAL TO TREAT;

EID: 0348227657     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmg602     Document Type: Article

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