Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1595-1602

  Brown, Rhonda ^a   Dunn, Stewart ^b   Byrnes, Karen ^d   Morris, Richard ^c   Heinrich, Paul ^b   Shaw, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPERIENCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 70449377624     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181baf537     Document Type: Article

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