How Patient-Centered Do Female Physicians Need to Be? Analogue Patients’ Satisfaction With Male and Female Physicians’ Identical Behaviors

Health Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 894-900

  Hall, Judith A ^a   Roter, Debra L ^b   Blanch Hartigan, Danielle ^c   Mast, Marianne Schmid ^d   Pitegoff, Curtis A ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; SEX FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928956602     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.900892     Document Type: Article

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