Improving medical communication: Skills for a complex (and multilingual) clinical world

Canadian Respiratory Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 89-91

  Brindley, Peter G ^a   Smith, Katherine E ^a   Cardinal, Pierre ^b   LeBlanc, Francois ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CANADA; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; ETHICS; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CANADA; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84898433718     PISSN: 11982241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/780270     Document Type: Review

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