The number of words spoken by male doctors and male and female patients in a sample of British general practitioner-patient consultations
Engelsk titel: The number of words spoken by male doctors and male and female patients in a sample of British general practitioner-patient consultations
Författare:
Wynn, Rolf
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 20
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 57092
Sammanfattning
The objective was to investigate the relationship of the amount of words spoken be general practitioners and patients to the main topics of the consultations and the sex of the patients. A sample of 60 face-to-face doctor-patient consultations, with five different doctors and 60 different patients, randomly chosen from a database of British general practitioners-patient consultations was studied. All the doctors were male; 33 patients were female, 27 male. The main topics of the consultations were more important than sex of the patients with regard to the proportion of words uttered by doctors and by patients.