Nurse or physician: Whose recommendation influences the decision to take genetic tests more?

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 806-813

  Barnoy, Sivia ^a   Levy, Ofra ^b   Bar Tal, Yoram ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Head of the Afula and Valleys Region   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carrier screening; Genetic nurse specialist; Genetic testing; Physician

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 77951519299     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05239.x     Document Type: Article

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