Attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration: a cross-cultural study of male and female physicians and nurses in the United States and Mexico.

M, Hojat; TJ, Nasca; MJ, Cohen; SK, Fields; SL, Rattner; M, Griffiths; D, Ibarra; Gonzalez AA, de; A, Torres-Ruiz; G, Ibarra; A, Garcia

doi:10.1097/00006199-200103000-00008

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Attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration: a cross-cultural study of male and female physicians and nurses in the United States and Mexico.

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Hojat M

Nasca TJ

Cohen MJ

Abstract

Background Inter-professional collaboration between physicians and nurses, within and between cultures, can help contain cost and insure better patient outcomes. Attitude toward such collaboration is a function of the roles prescribed in the culture that guide professional behavior.Objectives The pu...

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