Background There has been an increased focus towards improving quality of care within the
NHS in the last 15 years; as part of this, there has been an emphasis on the importance of …

PURPOSE Clinical quality and patient experience are both widely used to evaluate the quality
of health care, but the relationship between these 2 domains remains uncertain. The aim …

Reaching a decision about whether and when to visit the doctor can be a difficult process for
the patient. An early visit may cause the doctor to wonder why the patient chose to consult …

PURPOSE To examine how family physicians’, patients’, and trained clinical raters’ assessments
of physician-patient communication compare by analysis of individual appointments. …

Background Although attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common condition
for which pharmacotherapy is considered an effective treatment, guidelines on the treatment …

Background Despite several decades of evidence supporting the benefits of taking
medications in various diseases and healthcare settings, a significant proportion of prescribed …

Patient evaluations of physician communication are widely used, but we know little about
how these relate to professionally agreed norms of communication quality. We report an …

Objective To examine concordance between responses to patient experience survey items
evaluating doctors' interpersonal skills, and subsequent patient interview accounts of their …

… 2015 meta-analysis included 175 ADHD prevalence studies and suggested an overall
pooled estimate of 7.2%, although few included studies were from outside of Europe and North …

Quality improvement describes the process of improving patients’ safety, experiences and
health outcomes by systematically addressing individual and organisational processes. This …