Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 70, Issue 1 , Pages 3-9 , January 2008

Assessing validity of standardized patient ratings of medical students’ communication behavior using the Roter interaction analysis system

  • Eboni G. Price

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, 1430 Tulane Avenue, SL 16, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States. Tel.: +1 504 988 7518; fax: +1 504 988 8252.
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  • Donna M. Windish

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, United States
    • ,
  • Jeffrey Magaziner

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
    • ,
  • Lisa A. Cooper

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Received 20 February 2007 ,Revised 23 August 2007 ,Accepted 6 October 2007.

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PII: S0738-3991(07)00388-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.10.002

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