Objective To determine whether the patient-clinician relationship has a beneficial effect on
either objective or validated subjective healthcare outcomes. Design Systematic review and …

Objective To explore evidence on the links between patient experience and clinical safety
and effectiveness outcomes. Design Systematic review. Setting A wide range of settings …

Meta-Analysis shows concisely, yet comprehensively, how to apply statistical methods to
achieve a literature review of a common research domain. It demonstrates the use of …

Skills for Communicating with Patients, Third Edition is one of two companion books on
improving communication in medicine, which together provide a comprehensive approach …

Conventional reviews of research on the efficacy of psychological, educational, and
behavioral treatments often find considerable variation in outcome among studies and, as a …

management of health complications from female genital mutilation Page 1 WHO guidelines
on the management of health complications from female genital mutilation i WHO guidelines …

This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition,
provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated …

Studies designed to examine effects of weight reduction by dieting on total cholesterol (TC),
low-density-li-poprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) …

Human emotion recognition could greatly contribute to human–computer interaction with
promising applications in artificial intelligence. One of the challenges in recognition tasks is …

XIV PREFACE or her communication with patients, as well as how a physician's gender
influences the way in which his or her patients communicate. Part II of this book describes …