International patient preferences for physician attire: results from cross-sectional studies in four countries across three continents

Objective The patient–physician relationship impacts patients’ experiences and health outcomes. Physician attire is a form of nonverbal communication that influences this relationship. Prior studies examining attire preferences suffered from heterogeneous measurement and limited context. We thus per...

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Main Authors: Gianni Virgili, Nathan Houchens, Sanjay Saint, Latoya Kuhn, David Ratz, Vineet Chopra, Marc Zollinger, Hugo Sax, Yasuharu Tokuda, Akira Kuriyama, Stefano Fumagalli, Carlo Fumagalli, Christopher Petrilli, Lindsey De Lott, Kazuhiro Kamata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2022-10-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/10/e061092.full