Promoting patient-centered counseling to reduce use of low-value diagnostic tests: A randomized clinical trial

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 191-197

  Fenton, Joshua J ^a,b   Kravitz, Richard L ^a,b   Jerant, Anthony ^a,b   Paterniti, Debora A ^b   Bang, Heejung ^b   Williams, Donna ^a   Epstein, Ronald M ^c,d   Franks, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SIMULATION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84957955016     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.6840     Document Type: Article

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