Four minutes for a patient, twenty seconds for a relative - An observational study at a university hospital

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Becker, Gerhild ^a   Kempf, Dorothee E ^a   Xander, Carola J ^a   Momm, Felix ^a   Olschewski, Manfred ^a   Blum, Hubert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORK SCHEDULE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GERMANY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TIME FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 77950675409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-94     Document Type: Article

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