How patients perceive a doctor's caring attitude

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-366

  Quirk, Mark ^a   Mazor, Kathleen ^a,b   Haley, Heather Lyn ^a   Philbin, Mary ^a   Fischer, Melissa ^a   Sullivan, Kate ^a   Hatem, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Caring; Caring attitude checklist; Empathy; Focus group study; Patient perspective; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48949104493     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.05.022     Document Type: Article

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