The relationship between time spent communicating and communication outcomes on a hospital medicine service

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-189

  Rothberg, Michael B ^a,b,c   Steele, John R ^d   Wheeler, John ^b,c   Arora, Ashish ^b,c   Priya, Aruna ^a   Lindenauer, Peter K ^a,c  

^a Center for Quality of Care Research   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Hospital medicine; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856754296     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1857-8     Document Type: Article

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