Abstract: Introduction: Nonverbal communication is an important part of the medical interview. However, nonverbal skills are still underestimated in education and instruments for their teaching assessing schools scarce. Objective: We aimed to translate culturally adapt Relational Communication Scale Observational measurement doctor-patient interactions (RCS-O) Brazilian Portuguese. Methods: tra...

BACKGROUND Nurse-physician communication has been shown to have a significant impact on the job satisfaction and retention of staff. In areas where it has been studied, communication failure between nurses and physicians was found to be one of the leading causes of preventable patient injuries, complications, death and medical malpractice claims. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to de...

In spite of the enormous progress of Western medicine during the past century there has not be a concomitant rise in the public's satisfaction with the medical profession. Much of the discontent relates to problems in physician-patient communication. The multiple advantages of good communication have been clearly demonstrated by numerous careful studies. While the past few decades have witnesse...