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

Key messages about patient centred care can be drawn from the paper by Little et al in this
issue of the BMJ (p 468). 1 Firstly, strong agreement exists between the definition of patient …

PURPOSE We sought to identify and compare studies reporting the prevalence of multimorbidity
and to suggest methodologic aspects to be considered in the conduct of such studies. …

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

… The research of his PhD student Moira Stewart was guided by these interests and focused
on eliciting patients' discomforts, worries, and disturbances in daily living and social problems.…

Effective communication between doctor and patient is a central clinical function that cannot
be delegated. Most of the essential diagnostic information arises from the interview, and the …

Objectives. —To use audiotape analysis to describe communication patterns in primary care,
to relate these to ideal relationship types as described in the literature, and to explore the …

This article describes a patient-centred clinical method appropriate for family medicine. The
method is designed to attain an understanding of the patient as well as his disease. This two-…

The discipline of family medicine has espoused a patient-centered model of the doctor-patient
interaction. Patient-centered interactions are those in which the patient's point of view is …

This chapter covers important and well-studied aspects of patient-doctor communication.
First the paper describes the lessons learned from studies about patients' satisfactions or …