Physician Interaction With Battered Women: The Women's Perspective
Archives of Family MedicinePublished 1 November 1998
L. Kevin Hamberger
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Battered women are surveyed to rate the desirability of specific physician behaviors and identify discrete sets of desirable and undesirable physician behaviors that can help guide both clinical practice and the development of physician training curricula.
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We identified discrete sets of desirable and undesirable physician behaviors. Further research is needed to clarify racial differences found in this study. Findings can help guide both clinical practice and the development of physician training curricula.
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