Raising positive expectations helps patients with minor ailments: A cross-sectional study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fassaert, Thijs ^a   Van Dulmen, Sandra ^a   Schellevis, François ^a,b   Van Der Jagt, Liesbeth ^c   Bensing, Jozien ^a,d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DUTCH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSULTATION; EXPECTATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REASSURANCE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 47249151009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-9-38     Document Type: Article

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