Voodoo dolls and the cancer patient: Patients do trust their doctors

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 311-319

  Newsom Davis, T ^a   Kenny, L ^a   Al Shakarchi, I ^a   George, J ^a   Wong, E ^a   Waxman, Jonathan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALLOPATHY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65449170866     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcp013     Document Type: Article

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