What do patients say about their physicians? An analysis of 3000 narrative comments posted on a German physician rating website

Health Policy

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-73

  Emmert, Martin ^a   Meier, Florian ^a   Heider, Ann Kathrin ^a   Dürr, Christoph ^a   Sander, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Patient narratives; Patient satisfaction; Physician rating website; Public reporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STAFF; NARRATIVE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84927572001     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.04.015     Document Type: Article

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