Assessment of mutual understanding of physician patient encounters: Development and validation of a mutual understanding scale (MUS) in a multicultural general practice setting

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-181

  Harmsen, J A M ^a   Bernsen, R M D ^a   Meeuwesen, L ^b   Pinto, D ^c   Bruijnzeels, M A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Ethnicity; General practice; Mutual understanding; Physician patient; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSULTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING SCALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 27644483207     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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