Physicians' difficulty with emergency department patients is related to patients' attachment style

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 552-562

  Maunder, Robert G ^a   Panzer, Annie ^b   Viljoen, Margaretha ^b   Owen, Johanna ^b   Human, Schalk ^b   Hunter, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adult attachment; Difficult patients; Emergency medicine; South Africa

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL SECTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; GAUTENG; PRETORIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33646855218     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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