Medicine is not gender-neutral: Influence of physician sex on medical care;De geneeskunde is niet genderneutraal: Invloed van de sekse van de dokter op de medische zorg

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 152, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 1141-1145

  Lagro Janssen, A L M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; GENDER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSTATE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIALIZATION; VAGINA;

COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 45149125452     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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