Connoisseurs of care? Unannounced standardized patients' ratings of physicians

Medical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1092-1098

  Srinivasan, Malathi ^a   Franks, Peter ^a   Meredith, Lisa S ^b   Fiscella, Kevin ^c   Epstein, Ronald M ^c   Kravitz, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy support; Clinical skills and interpersonal skills evaluation; Competency assessment; Patient satisfaction; Physician performance evaluation; Primary care; Unannounced standardized patient

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33751321873     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000237197.92152.5e     Document Type: Article

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