Provider communication quality: Influence of patients' weight and race

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 492-498

  Wong, Michelle S ^a   Gudzune, Kimberly A ^b   Bleich, Sara N ^a  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Obesity; Provider communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BODY WEIGHT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONALISM; RACE DIFFERENCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BODY WEIGHT; COMMUNICATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84933278439     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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