General practitioner empathy, patient enablement, and patient-reported outcomes in primary care in an area of high socio-economic deprivation in Scotland-A pilot prospective study using structural equation modeling

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-245

  Mercer, Stewart W ^a   Neumann, Melanie ^b   Wirtz, Markus ^c   Fitzpatrick, Bridie ^a   Vojt, Gaby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empathy; Enablement; General practice; Outcomes; Primary care; Socio economic deprivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMPATHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SELF EFFICACY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53049101727     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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