"Four Habits" goes abroad: Report from a pilot study in Norway

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 388-393

  Gulbrandsen, Pål ^a   Krupat, Ed ^b   Benth, Jurate Saltyte ^a   Garratt, Andrew ^c   Safran, Dana Gelb ^d   Finset, Arnstein ^e   Frankel, Richard ^f  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services   (Norway)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Counseling; Focus groups; Hospital physicians; Norway; Outpatient clinics; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HABITS; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STAFF DEVELOPMENT; TEACHING;

EID: 48949100756     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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