To treat or not to treat: Evidence for “treatment bias” when consumers evaluate physicians

Health Marketing Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 43-61

  Pontes, Manuel C F ^a   Pontes, Nancy M H ^b  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REFUSAL TO TREAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGY;

EID: 3042778982     PISSN: 07359683     EISSN: 15450864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J026v20n04_04     Document Type: Article

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