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Publication details [#44629]

Hagihara, Akihito, Kimio Tarumi and Koichi Nobutomo. 2006. Physicians' and Patients' Recognition of the Level of the Physician's Explanation in Medical Encounters. Journal of Health Communication 20 (1) : 101–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | evaluation | explaining | medical conversation

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Annotation

This paper explores the link between patients' and doctors' evaluations of doctors' medical test result explanations and diagnoses in actual practice in Japan.