Not all suffering is pain: Sources of patients' suffering in the emergency department call for improvements in communication from practitioners

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-20

  Body, Richard ^a   Kaide, Ergul ^a   Kendal, Sarah ^a   Foex, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING; ANXIETY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMOTION; ETIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ANXIETY; COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84918835497     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2013-202860     Document Type: Article

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