Broken communication between patient and physician

Designing and Psychometric Assessing of Physician-Patient Communication Skills Tool

Background: Assessment of physicians’ communication skills with patients is essential to ensure effective treatment. Achieving such a goal requires the use of a valid, native, and culturally-based tool. This study aimed to design a physician-patient communication skills assessment tool and evaluate its validity and reliability among the medical students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences,...

Privileged communication between physician and patient.

The relationship between physician humility, physician-patient communication, and patient health.

OBJECTIVE Cultural portrayals of physicians suggest an unclear and even contradictory role for humility in the physician-patient relationship. Despite the social importance of humility, however, little empirical research has linked humility in physicians with patient outcomes or the characteristics of the doctor-patient visit. The present study investigated the relationship between physician hu...

Communication between the hospitalized older patient and physician.

Much research has shown that how physicians communicate with patients can have profound influence on behavioral, psychosocial, and clinical outcomes of the encounter. Communication with older patients, however, is often compromised by some attributes of the aging process. Communication can also be affected by the setting in which it takes place, and the hospital presents some barriers not found...

Enhancing physician-patient communication.

Physician-patient communication encompasses the verbal and nonverbal interactions that form the basis for the doctor-patient relationship. A growing body of research and guidelines development acknowledges that physicians do not have to be born with excellent communication skills, but rather can learn them as they practice the other aspects of medicine. Improvement in physician-patient communic...