Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 70, Issue 1 , Pages 69-78 , January 2008

Assessment of the physician–caregiver relationship scales (PCRS)

  • Elizabeth D. Cox

      Affiliations

    • Center for Women's Health Research, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, United States
    • Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, United States
    • Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Dept of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Box 41087 Clinical Science Center-H4/444, 600 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53792, United States. Tel: +1 608 263 9104.
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  • Maureen A. Smith

      Affiliations

    • Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, United States
    • ,
  • Roger L. Brown

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, United States
    • ,
  • Mary A. Fitzpatrick

      Affiliations

    • College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina, United States

Received 12 March 2007 ,Revised 3 August 2007 ,Accepted 9 August 2007.

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☆ Portions of this work were previously presented at the Third International Shared Decision Making Conference in Ottawa, Canada, 14–16 June 2005; the Child Health Services Research Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, 25 June 2005; the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare in Chicago, IL, 6–8 October 2005; the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, 29 April–2 May 2006.

PII: S0738-3991(07)00310-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.08.004

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