Difficult patients or difficult encounters?
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Managing Difficult Encounters: Understanding Physician, Patient, and Situational Factors <FEFF>[Query: Should Difficult Patient Encounters be changed to Difficult Clinical Encounters for consistency with the text?]
D ifficult encounters are estimated to represent 15 to 30 percent of family physician visits. Factors contributing to these difficult clinical encounters may be related to the physician, patient, situation, or a combination. Physicians can recognize these visits as challenging by acknowledging their feelings of angst or helplessness generated during the conversation. These encounters are also c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1460-2393,1460-2725
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hci083