Barriers and facilitating communication skills for breaking bad news: From the specialists' practice perspective

Colombia Medica

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 158-166

  Payán, Enna Catalina ^a,b   Montoya, David Andrés ^c   Vargas, John Jaíro ^a   Vélez, Maria Clara ^a   Castaño, Alfonso ^a   Krikorian, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

^b HOSPITAL PABLO TOBÓN URIBE   (Colombia)

^c The Children's Neuro psychology Center   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Barriers; Effective communication skills; Physician patient communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE;

EID: 68449088120     PISSN: 16579534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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