Physician-patient communication on cost and affordability in asthma care who wants to talk about it and who is actually doing it

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1538-1544

  Patel, Minal R ^a   Wheeler, John R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost related nonadherence; Financial burden; Patient preferences; Self management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ADOLESCENT; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; COMMUNICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920435958     PISSN: 23296933     EISSN: 23256621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201408-363OC     Document Type: Article

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