Moving towards future patient-centered healthcare requires increasing health literacy [1] and encouraging patients to take a more active role in their own care. Physician-patient communication is a key factor influencing health literacy for patients. Poor health literacy can lead to poorer medical outcomes for patients [2-4]. Thus, an important design goal of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) an...

E ffective communication between health care providers is essential to patient safety and quality of care. A retrospective study of 14 000 admissions found that communication failures were the most common cause of preventable disability or death and were nearly twice as common as those due to inadequate medical skill. A major type of communication failure is sending a page to the wrong physicia...

Address for reprints: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 901 North Washington Avenue, Lansing, MI 48906-5137. Fax: 517-485-0801; e-mail: [email protected] ❚ This is the final of 3 papers developed by the SAEM Task Force on Physician–Patient Communication. This series of essential clinical communication issues concludes with a discussion of ED disposition planning, medicolegal considerati...

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The quality of communication between physician and patient is a major contributor to patient satisfaction and treatment adherence. Deaf patients who use American Sign Language experience significant communication barriers in most medical settings. This study investigated factors impacting deaf patients' satisfaction with prenatal care and prenatal care disparities betw...

Objective: To examine the relationship between physician communication competence and A1c control among Hispanics and non-Hispanics seen in primary care practices. Study design: Observational. Methods: Direct observation and audio-recording of patient–physician encounters by 155 Hispanic and non-Hispanic white patients seen by 40 physicians in 20 different primary care clinics. Audio-recordings...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between physician communication competence and A1c control among Hispanics and non-Hispanics seen in primary care practices. STUDY DESIGN Observational. METHODS Direct observation and audio-recording of patient-physician encounters by 155 Hispanic and non-Hispanic white patients seen by 40 physicians in 20 different primary care clinics. Audio-recording...

BACKGROUND Effective collaboration between hospital nurses and physicians is associated with patient safety, quality of care, and provider satisfaction. Mutual nurse–physician perceptions of one another’s collaboration are typically discrepant. Quantitative and qualitative studies frequently conclude that nurses experience lower satisfaction with nurse–physician collaboration than physicians. M...

This study aimed to examine variations in patient-physician communication by obesity status. We pooled data from the 2005-2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS),_included only individuals who completed the self-administered questionnaire themselves, and restricted the sample to patients who received care from primary care physicians. We included a total of 6,628 unique individuals between...