"Dr. Right": Elderly women in pursuit of negotiated health care and mutual decision making

Qualitative Report

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 409-432

  Evans, Kevin ^a   Robertson, Suzanne ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly women; Grounded theory; Mutuality; Patient Physician Interactions; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349284906     PISSN: 10520147     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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