Confidentiality and physicians' health. A cross-sectional study of university hospital physicians in four European cities (the HOUPE-study)

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 263-271

  Løvseth, Lise Tevik ^a   Aasland, Olaf Gjerløw ^b   Fridner, Ann ^c   Jónsdottir, Lilja Sigrun ^d   Marini, Massimo ^e   Linaker, Olav Morten ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Directorate of Health   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doctor; Health; Professional secrecy; Social support; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; ETHICS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78049296460     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13489585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.L10014     Document Type: Article

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