Surgeon's and nurses' use of E-mail communication with head and neck cancer patients

Head and Neck

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 108-113

  Kagan, Sarah H ^a   Clarke, Sean P ^a   Happ, Mary Beth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; E mail; Head and neck surgery; Nurse; Surgeon; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SURGEON; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; E-MAIL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 13244255564     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20119     Document Type: Review

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