Patient-Clinician Communication

Clinician-patient communication to enhance health outcomes.

Medication adherence usually refers to whether patients take their medications as prescribed (eg, twice daily), as well as whether they continue to take a prescribed medication. Medication non adherence is a growing concern to clinicians, healthcare systems, and other stakeholders (eg, payers) because of mounting evidence that it is prevalent and associated with adverse outcomes and higher cost...

Visualizations to Support Patient-Clinician Communication of Care Plans

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI PCC Workshop’13, April 28, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. Abstract CareFlow is a novel system designed to help doctors and patients communicate about possible care plans and their outcomes. Using observed outcomes from clinically similar patients, CareFlow allows doctors and patients to understand which treatments have historicall...

Clinician-patient communication about physical activity in an underserved population.

BACKGROUND The 5A (Ask, Advise, Agree, Assist, Arrange) model, used to promote patient behavior changes in primary care, can also be applied to physical activity. Our goal was to assess primary care physicians' use of the 5A model in discussions with underserved populations about physical activity. METHODS We analyzed 51 audio-recorded, transcribed office visits on randomly selected patient c...

Annotated Bibliography for Clinician Patient Communication to Enhance Health Outcomes

Effects of an interactive tailored patient assessment on patient-clinician communication in cancer care.

BACKGROUND To test the effect of Choice, an interactive tailored patient assessment (ITPA) tool on the number and types of symptoms addressed during consultations with cancer patients, cancer patients' active participation during consultation with clinicians, and clinicians' responses. METHOD A total of 193 consultations were audio taped and coded with the task-oriented part of Roter Interact...