TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe difficult clinical encounter and bothersome patient behaviors
AU  - Evans R
Y1  - 2009/07/27
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.227
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1336
EP  - 1340
VL  - 169
IS  - 14
N2  - 
We performed a survey of neurologists,3 with the premise that although much is known about patient complaints about physicians, little is known about physician complaints about patients. We chose what we believed to be a more neutral term, ie, bothersome patient behaviors rather than difficult patients. Participants were presented with 30 patient behaviors (including the 8 in the An et al1 survey) and asked how often they had seen patients with these behaviors in the prior 1 year and how bothersome the behaviors were to them.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.227
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2009.227
ER  -