Concordance of patient-physician obesity diagnosis and treatment beliefs in rural practice settings

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 364-366

  Ely, Andrea Charbonneau ^a,b   Greiner, K Allen ^a,b   Born, Wendi ^c   Hall, Sandra ^b   Rhode, Paula C ^b   James, Aimee S ^b   Nollen, Nicole ^b   Ahluwalia, Jasjit S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BAKER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OBESITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL AREA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33748993409     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2006.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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