Finding the right interactional temperature: Do colder patients need more warmth in physician communication style?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 18-23

  Cousin, Gaëtan ^a   Schmid Mast, Marianne ^b   Jaunin Stalder, Nicole ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c POLICLINIQUE MÉDICALE UNIVERSITAIRE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Difficult patients; Physician Patient communication; Satisfaction; Switzerland; Trust

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH WORKER; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ADULT; AGE; AGREEABLENESS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; COMMUNICATION STYLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN AFFILIATIVENESS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWITZERLAND; TRUST; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

SWITZERLAND;

AGREEABLENESS; DIFFICULT PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT COMMUNICATION; SATISFACTION; SWITZERLAND; TRUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND; TRUST; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890218918     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.08.034     Document Type: Article

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