Beyond “One Size Fits All”: Physician Nonverbal Adaptability to Patients’ Need for Paternalism and Its Positive Consultation Outcomes

Health Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1327-1333

  Carrard, Valérie ^a   Schmid Mast, Marianne ^a   Cousin, Gaëtan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATERNALISM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING; TRUST; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATERNALISM; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962129285     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1052871     Document Type: Article

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