Validation and cultural adaptation of a German version of the Physicians' Reactions to Uncertainty scales

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schneider, Antonius ^a   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a   Barie, Stefan ^a   Joest, Katharina ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 34347376164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-81     Document Type: Article

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