General Practitioners' perceptions of their role in cancer care and factors which influence this role

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 607-616

  Mitchell, Geoffrey K ^a   Burridge, Letitia H ^a   Colquist, Shoni P ^b   Love, Alison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Care coordination; Communication; General Practitioner; Multidisciplinary care; Rural

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84867596176     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2012.01075.x     Document Type: Article

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