Research on patient-clinician relationships

Repairing "Difficult" Patient-Clinician Relationships.

Using a case example, we offer guidance for improving "difficult" clinician-patient relationships. These relationships may be repaired by acknowledging a clinician's part in conflict, empathizing with patients, identifying a patient's skill deficits, and employing communication and engagement techniques used by mental health professionals. Clinicians will inevitably take on more of the work of ...

Annotated Bibliography “Difficult” Clinician-Patient Relationships

Continuity, care, and commitment: the course of patient-clinician relationships.

Countertransference reactions to adolescents with eating disorders: relationships to clinician and patient factors.

OBJECTIVE Clinical report suggests that therapists have strong and sometimes difficult-to-manage reactions to patients with eating disorders (EDs); however, systematic research is largely absent. The purpose of this study was to explore the emotional responses, or countertransference (CT) reactions, clinicians experience when working with patients with EDs, and to identify clinician, patient, a...

Clinician-Targeted Intervention and Patient-Reported Counseling on Physical Activity

INTRODUCTION Limited time and lack of knowledge are barriers to physical activity counseling in primary care. The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a clinician-targeted intervention that used the 5As (Ask, Advise, Agree, Assist, Arrange) approach to physical activity counseling in a medically underserved patient population. METHODS Family medicine clinicians at 2 com...