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

Background The purpose of this scoping review was to describe how three tenants of patient-
centered care provision: communication, partnership, and health promotion are addressed …

Background: Numerous empirical studies from various populations and settings link patient
treatment adherence to physician-patient communication. Meta-analysis allows estimates 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 …

Many doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians alike do not understand what health
statistics mean or draw wrong conclusions without noticing. Collective statistical illiteracy …

Background The context in which patients consume health information has changed
dramatically with diffusion of the Internet, advances in telemedicine, and changes in media …

The recent focus on patient engagement acknowledges that patients have an important role
to play in their own health care. This includes reading, understanding and acting on health …

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 …

PURPOSE We wanted to identify published randomized trials of interventions to alter the
interaction between patients and practitioners, develop taxonomies of the interventions and …

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to develop and pilot a tool to measure health literacy in primary
health care settings, encompassing functional, communicative and critical health literacy …