Working together — primary care doctors’ and nurses’ attitudes to collaboration

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-85

  Hansson, Anders ^a   Marklund, Bertil ^a   Mattsson, Bengt ^a   Arvemo, Tobias ^b   Gedda, Birgitta ^b  

^a Department of Public Health and Community Medicine/Primary Health Care ^*  (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cooperative behaviour; district nurse; general practitioner; professional role; science; teamwork

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COOPERATION; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 76249133227     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494809347405     Document Type: Article

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