Patients' preferred terms for describing their excess weight: Discussing obesity in clinical practice

Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 147-150

  Volger, Sheri ^a   Vetter, Marion L ^a   Dougherty, Megan ^a   Panigrahi, Eva ^a   Egner, Rebecca ^a   Webb, Victoria ^a   Thomas, J Graham ^b   Sarwer, David B ^a   Wadden, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT PREFERENCE QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHILADELPHIA; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84655169618     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2011.217     Document Type: Article

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