Initiating decision-making in neurology consultations: 'Recommending' versus 'option-listing' and the implications for medical authority

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 873-890

  Toerien, Merran ^a   Shaw, Rebecca ^b   Reuber, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Decision making; Doctor patient interaction; Medical authority; Treatment recommendations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION-MAKING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOCTOR-PATIENT INTERACTION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL AUTHORITY; METHODOLOGY; MIGRAINE; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEIZURE; TIME; TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; DECISION-MAKING; DOCTOR-PATIENT INTERACTION; MEDICAL AUTHORITY; TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEUROLOGY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880511975     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12000     Document Type: Article

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