Familiarity between patient and general practitioner does not influence the content of the consultation

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Jabaaij, Lea ^a   Fassaert, Thijs ^a   Van Dulmen, Sandra ^a   Timmermans, Arno ^b   Van Essen, Gerrit A ^c   Schellevis, François ^a,d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKILL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VIDEOTAPE; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 53849103303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-9-51     Document Type: Article

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