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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"physician communication"”.
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Metaphors in nurse-physician communication
This study addresses the weaknesses in the nurse-physician communication literature by preserving the cultural phenomena and coupling this context with empirical validation. Its purpose is to achieve a better understanding, through description and explanation, of the communication patterns between …
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Breaking Bad News: Effect Of Physician Communication On Analog Patients' Response
… yet unavoidable part of healthcare for physicians and patients alike. Although expert opinion suggests that certain strategies for breaking bad news may be better than others, there is little methodologically rigorous research to support current guidelines. This study used an …
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Emergency Physician Communication Style and Career Satisfaction: Is There a Correlation?
… style and career satisfaction among emergency physicians was investigated. An e-mail survey was sent to a random sample of 1,000 members of the American College of Emergency Physicians in practice for at least three years; 707 had valid e-mail addresses. A twenty-item behavioral style survey …
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The Value of Online Medication Rating Systems to Older Adults and Their Association with Self-Reported Outcomes
… the role of online health information as well as physician-rating websites in health care. Studies have examined the value of online drug information for patients and the value of the online drug information for patients. However, no study has examined the usefulness or value of online medication …
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Stereotypes and Patient-Provider Communication: Testing the Effects of Depression, Socioeconomic Status, and Race
… impression formation, affective reactions, and communication with patients. The</p><p>medical literature shows that health disparities exist for minorities and individuals with low socioeconomic statuses (Adler & Ostrove, 1999). In addition individuals with severe mental illness receive low …
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Investigating the challenges of medical interpreting in the refugee context in Jordan
… of interpretation, the quality of patient-physician communication and the delivery of medical care. Untrained medical interpreters are more likely to develop psychological disorders and make interpretation errors, which may lead to adverse patient outcomes. However, there is lack of …
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Intensive Treatment Near the End of Life in Advanced Cancer Patients
… has focused on patient prognostic understanding, physician communication, and patient distress. These factors do not fully explain why many patients receive intensive treatment near the EOL when there is no hope for cure. Hence, there is a need to better understand the factors that influence EOL …
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Improving Interactions with Healthcare Robots
… promote positive patient outcomes. Research on physician behaviour may inform the design of healthcare robots within this context. The central aim of this thesis was to investigate the effects of key healthcare robot communication behaviours on user perceptions and behaviours in simulated …
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Heart-focused Anxiety and Cardiac Treatment Adherence
… adherence through increased education, patient-physician communication, and psychological interventions aimed at reducing fear and anxiety.</p>
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Family Acculturation and Asthma Outcomes in Latino Children
… protective against asthma while improve patient-physician communication to ensure at-risk populations gain access to necessary asthma management plans.</p>
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Minority Physician Job Satisfaction: A Content Analysis Of Written Responses To Open-ended Survey Questions About Professional A
Few interpersonal and organizational communication studies examine the professional and organizational aspects of career satisfaction among minority physicians. Due to the underrepresenation of minority physicians, most studies resort to comparing aggregate groups of minority physicians in …
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IMPROVING QUALITY AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PROVIDERS AND NURSING - A PSYCHIATRIC SBAR TOOL (PSYCH)
<p>IMPROVING QUALITY AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN</p> <p>PROVIDERS AND NURSING - A PSYCHIATRIC SBAR TOOL (PSYCH)</p> <p>Karen Richards</p> <p>University of San Francisco</p> <p>Abstract</p> <p>Effective communication is the cornerstone of providing safety and quality healthcare. However, …
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Agency And Resistance Strategies Among Black Primary Care Patients
… themes for patient agency: interrupting the physician, stating observations of care, expressing needs and desires, constructing identity, and agenda/goal management. Participants also used both active and passive forms of resistance tactics in an effort to influence the diagnosis and …
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Understanding How Patients Perceive Their Medical Providers’ Communication in a Hospital Based Emergency Department Setting
… complaint has been that there is a breakdown in communication with their healthcare provider. This is concerning because poor provider-patient communication can lead to reduced medication adherence, misdiagnosis, increased healthcare costs, and even death. Furthermore, the implementation of the …
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The Story of Medicine: From Paternalism to Partnership
Physicians were interviewed and asked about their perspectives on communicating with patients, media, and the ways in which the biomedical and biopsychosocial models function in the practice of medicine. Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm was the primary critical method applied to themes that emerged from …