Pre-emptive resistance: Patients' participation in diagnostic sense-making activities

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Gill, Virginia Teas ^a   Pomerantz, Anita ^b   Denvir, Paul ^c  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Diagnosis; Doctor patient interaction; Explanation; Patient participation

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; STATISTICS; VIDEORECORDING;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OFFICE VISITS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77955870870     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01208.x     Document Type: Article

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