Patients' question-asking behavior during primary care visits: A report from the AAFP national research network

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-159

  Galliher, James M ^a,b,c   Post, Douglas M ^d   Weiss, Barry D ^e   Miriam Dickinson, L ^a,c   Manning, Brian K ^a   Staton, Elizabeth W ^a,c   Brown, Judith Belle ^f   Hickner, John M ^g   Bonham, Aaron J ^b   Ryan, Bridget L ^f   Pace, Wilson D ^a,c  

^a AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^g LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Multi methods research; Patient education; Patient clinician communications; Practice based research; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECORDING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAPE RECORDING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949284311     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1055     Document Type: Article

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