Behavioral Coding for Evaluation of Medical Student Communication: Clarification or Obfuscation?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 162-170

  Sloane, Philip D ^a,b,e   Beck, Rainer ^g   Kowlowitz, Vicki ^a,c,e   Blotzer, Angela M ^f   Wang, Lily ^f   Akins, Luzmila ^f   White Chu, Foy ^h   Mitchell, C Madeline ^d,f  

^a Department of Family Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Cecil G Sheps Ctr Hlth Serv Res   (United States)

^c School of Nursing

^d Cecil G Sheps Ctr Hlth Serv Res   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^g Mt Area Health Education Center   (United States)

^h OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CODING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STANDARD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORTH CAROLINA; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 1542318884     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200402000-00013     Document Type: Article

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