"completely out-at-sea" with "two-gender medicine": A qualitative analysis of physician-side barriers to providing healthcare for transgender patients

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Snelgrove, John W ^a   Jasudavisius, Amanda M ^a   Rowe, Bradley W ^a   Head, Evan M ^a   Bauer, Greta R ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; ETHICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX REASSIGNMENT; STANDARD; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADULT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84860532044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-110     Document Type: Article

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