Linguistic validation in multiple patient populations: Cognitive interviewing approaches

A linguistic study of patient-centered interviewing: emergent interactional effects.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate interactional effects of patient-centered interviewing (PCI) compared to isolated clinician-centered interviewing (CCI). METHODS We conducted a pilot study comparing PCI (N=4) to CCI (N=4) for simulated new-patient visits. We rated interviews independently and measured patient satisfaction with the interaction via a validated questionnaire. We conducted interactional so...

Interviewing the Patient

obviously aware of the reader at all times, interrupting the text with recall questions, aide-memoires (even mnemonics) humour, analogies and occasional etymological explanations. Clinical considerations are frequently mentioned, the usual tedious and verbose descriptions of relations skilfully avoided and functions emphasised in a logical manner. Advice is given even on the construction of a m...

Cognitive interviewing used in the development and validation of Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire in Sweden

Managed approaches to multiple sclerosis in special populations.

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system that is classified as an immune-mediated inflammatory disease. In managed care, patients with MS can be managed through care coordination that engages an interprofessional approach to a comprehensive spectrum of preventive, medical, rehabilitative, cognitive, and long-term health care servi...

Evidence - Based Patient - Centered Interviewing

Interest in the medical interview has increased dramatically over the past 2 decades as researchers have come to better understand the relationship between communication and health. Until the early 1970s, the clinical perspective of illness was almost entirely biomedical, and disease was defined as “deviations from the norm of measurable biological (somatic) variables” [1]. Data gathered for di...