Caught in the act? Prevalence, predictors, and consequences of physician detection of unannounced standardized patients

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2290-2302

  Franz, Carol E ^a   Epstein, Ron ^b   Miller, Katherine N ^c   Brown, Arthur ^b   Song, Jun ^d   Feldman, Mitchell ^e   Franks, Peter ^d   Kelly Reif, Steven ^f   Kravitz, Richard L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Center for Nonviolent Communication   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care delivery; Physician patient communication; Standardized patients

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADVERTISING; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751055192     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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