Sexual harassment and abuse: when the patient is the perpetrator

The Lancet

Volumn 392, Issue 10145, 2018, Pages 368-370

  Viglianti, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Oliverio, Andrea L ^a   Meeks, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL STUDENT; NOTE; OFFENDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEXISM; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; WELLBEING; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; MALE; PATIENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; SEXISM; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

EID: 85050854585     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31502-2     Document Type: Note

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