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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"medical consultations"”.
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A pragmalinguistic analysis of missed opportunities for building rapport in interpreted medical interviews with Spanish-speaking patients.
Interpreted medical discourse presents significant challenges for communication because portions of the original message are often reduced, omitted, or revised (Aranguri, Davidson, & Ramirez, 2006), particularly by lay interpreters. Linguistic devices that contribute to rapport and politeness, such …
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Empathetic Consultation Skills in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Qualitative Approach.
… the interaction and communication that occurs in consultations. The requisite for care in medical practice has been widely documented, and the role of empathy is acknowledged and recognised in this process; however, it is often difficult to express in a communicative framework. Previous research …
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Exploring "medically unexplained symptoms" with GPs and counselling psychologists : a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
"Medically unexplained symptoms" or "MUS" has been constructed as a term to describe persistent physical symptoms for which no medical aetiology can be found. "MUS" account for at least 20 per cent of UK medical consultations, yet fit uneasily within a biomedical discourse where illness is …
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Preoperative Internal Medicine Consultation for Elective Intermediate-to-high Risk Noncardiac Surgery in Ontario
… practice variation associated with preoperative medical consultation in Ontario, Canada. First, a multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted to develop a novel algorithm for identifying preoperative medical consultations using administrative data. The optimal claims-based algorithm was a …
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Evaluation of Food Assistance Programs and Implications of Patients' Health Information Seeking
… quality of health information improves, since medical consultations become more efficient and less costly, a higher effort will be induced or contracted from the physician. Diagnosis becomes more accurate, because physicians will try exert more effort in diagnosing patients and patients will …
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The determinants and effects of alcohol use among women in Oshikoto region, Namibia
… constituencies who were receiving their daily medical consultations at Onandjokwe Intermediate Hospital and Omuthiya State Hospital during the study. Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to data collection. The data was collected from one hundred and twenty-one (121) …
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Examining Change in Health Anxiety Symptoms Resulting From Transdiagnostic, Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behaviour Theapy: The Impact of Therapist Support
… acquire an illness, often resulting in frequent medical consultations at a significant economic cost. Further, the impact of level of therapist support (therapist-initiated vs. client-initiated) was investigated. Ninety-six clients participating in the Wellbeing Course, an 8-week transdiagnostic …
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Design, development, and evaluation of a web-based information tool to support decisions on treatment options for people with advanced pancreatic cancer: A mixed-methods study.
… tools that can potentially support them during medical consultations. Even when these PDSTs are available, they often suffer from practical adoption in healthcare. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the feasibility and acceptability of a web-based treatment information tool (WIT) for people …
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Desarrollo de una aplicación web para gestión de consultas médicas
El desarrollo web se basa en la creación de herramientas informáticas que permiten la integración de contenidos, facilitando el acceso a la información desde cualquier dispositivo. Las aplicaciones web surgen para abordar diversas necesidades, como la gestión de recursos y el acceso a información …