Age-Related Differences in Doctor-Patient Interaction and Patient Satisfaction

Age-Related Differences in Doctor-Patient Interaction and Patient Satisfaction

Background. Relatively little is known about patient characteristics associated with doctor-patient interaction style and satisfaction with the medical visit. Objective. The primary study objectives are to assess: whether doctors interact in a more or less patient-centered style with elderly patients and whether patient age moderates the relationship between interaction style and satisfaction, ...

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SKILLS AND PATIENT SATISFACTION A Study of Doctor - Patient

behaviors in the physician's initial interviewing style and relate them to patients'perception of satisfaction. Fivephysicians were tape recorded during their initial interviews with 52 adult patients. The patients were asked to complete the Medical fnterview Satisfaction Scale, a 29-item instrument with a 7-point response scale. These interviews were transcribed timed, coded and analyzed with ...

Studies of doctor-patient interaction.

Discussion between doctors and patients has long been regarded as the vehicle by which much of the curing and caring of medicine is conveyed. Sometimes regarded as the art or heart of medicine, its importance was well noted in antiquity and is recognized in modem times. However, it is only since the mid-1960s that the actual dynamics of the therapeutic dialogue have been observed in any systema...

Doctor-Patient Interaction System Based on Android

With the pervasiveness of smart phones and the advance of wireless body sensor networks (BSNs), mobile Healthcare (m-Healthcare), which extends the operation of Healthcare provider into a pervasive environment for better health monitoring, has attracted considerable interest recently. However, the flourish of m-Healthcare still faces many challenges including information security and privacy pr...