Frequency and focus of sexual history taking in male patients - A pilot study conducted among Swiss general practitioners and urologists

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-59

  Platano, Giacomo ^a,b   Margraf, Jürgen ^a   Alder, Judith ^a,b   Bitzer, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active exploration; Focus; General practitioners; Sense of competence; Sexual history taking; Urologists

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PILOT STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SWITZERLAND; UROLOGY;

EID: 37549053608     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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