Short- and long-term subjective medical treatment outcome of trauma surgery patients: The importance of physician empathy

Patient Preference and Adherence

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 1239-1253

  Steinhausen, Simone ^a   Ommen, Oliver ^b   Antoine, Sunya Lee ^a   Koehler, Thorsten ^c   Pfaff, Holger ^d   Neugebauer, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Federal Centre for Health Education BZgA   (Germany)

^c Institute for Applied Social Sciences (infas)   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accident; Com munication; Injury; Long term outcome; Patient reported outcome; Physician patient interaction; Trauma surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 84937565106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1177889X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/PPA.S62925     Document Type: Article

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