OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether the quality of physician-patient communication makes a
significant difference to patient health outcomes. DATA SOURCES: The MEDLINE database …

A 'patient-centred'approach is increasingly regarded as crucial for the delivery of high quality
care by doctors. However, there is considerable ambiguity concerning the exact meaning of …

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and
teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine-Transforming the …

This review presents issues arising from an analysis of over 100 papers published in the
field of patient satisfaction. The published output appearing in the medical and nursing …

Health Psychology is essential reading for all students and researchers of health
psychology. Organized into four sections, the 6th edition is structured with a clear emphasis …

Background Satisfaction and its measurement are important for public policy analysts,
healthcare managers, practitioners and users. Despite problems with establishing a tangible …

Background: In the last decade, the clinician-patient relationship has become more of a
partnership. There is growing interest in shared decision-making (SDM) in which the …

Today's students of social science must understand a variety of research methods. This new
edition fully explores the logic of research, whilst aiding a critical understanding of practical …

Objective: To measure patients9 perceptions of patient centredness and the relation of these
perceptions to outcomes. Design: Observational study using questionnaires. Setting: Three …

BACKGROUND: Involving patients in healthcare decisions makes a potentially significant
and enduring difference to healthcare outcomes. One difficulty (among many) is that …