You only have one chance for a first impression! Impact of Patients' First Impression on the Global Quality

Michela Rimondini1, Maria Angela Mazzi1, Isolde Martina Busch1

  • 1Section of Clinical Psychology, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona.

Health Communication
|July 12, 2018
PubMed

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