Physician empathy and subjective evaluation of medical treatment outcome in trauma surgery patients

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-60

  Steinhausen, Simone ^a   Ommen, Oliver ^d   Thüm, Sonja ^b   Lefering, Rolf ^a   Koehler, Thorsten ^c   Neugebauer, Edmund ^a   Pfaff, Holger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences   (Germany)

^d Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Empathy; Medical treatment outcome; Patient satisfaction; Patient reported outcome; Physician patient interaction; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOGNE PATIENT QUESTIONNAIRE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; AGED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGEON; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGEONS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896319167     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.12.007     Document Type: Article

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