Patient-Physician Communication: More Research Needed

Designing and Psychometric Assessing of Physician-Patient Communication Skills Tool

Background: Assessment of physicians’ communication skills with patients is essential to ensure effective treatment. Achieving such a goal requires the use of a valid, native, and culturally-based tool. This study aimed to design a physician-patient communication skills assessment tool and evaluate its validity and reliability among the medical students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences,...

Enhancing physician-patient communication.

Physician-patient communication encompasses the verbal and nonverbal interactions that form the basis for the doctor-patient relationship. A growing body of research and guidelines development acknowledges that physicians do not have to be born with excellent communication skills, but rather can learn them as they practice the other aspects of medicine. Improvement in physician-patient communic...

Trauma outcome research – More is needed

Anaesthesia and Critical Care Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Finnmark Health Trust, Hammerfest Hospital, Hammerfest, Norway Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Trauma, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Healt...

Much more research needed on injury prevention.

Osteonecrosis of the jaw: more research needed.

In the past 2 years, an increasing number of reports have appeared in the medical literature that suggest that the use of bisphosphonates, especially intravenous bisphosphonates, is associated with osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ). The majority of these reports are in patients with multiple myeloma, breast cancer, or other malignancies. In connection with these malignancies, the patients were rec...