Patient-physician gender concordance and weight-related counseling of obese patients

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 616-619

  Pickett Blakely, Octavia ^a,e   Bleich, Sara N ^b   Cooper, Lisa A ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY INTAKE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENDER CONCORDANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 79955849935     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.02.020     Document Type: Article

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