Physician Burnout and Patient-Physician Communication During Primary Care Encounters

Techniques for terminating patient-physician encounters in primary care settings.

BACKGROUND Physicians in the community work on a tight and often pressured schedule; verbal and non-verbal techniques to terminate the patient-physician encounter are therefore necessary. OBJECTIVES To characterize ways of terminating the encounter. METHODS Using a structured questionnaire we observed seven family physicians and nine consultants and recorded patient-physician encounters to ...

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,...

Physician-patient encounters "on a darkling plain.

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...

Primary care physician specialty referral decision making: patient, physician, and health care system determinants.

PURPOSE To examine the effects of patient, physician, and health care system characteristics on primary care physicians' (PCPs') specialty referral decision making. METHODS Physicians (n=142) and their practices (n=83) located in 30 states completed background questionnaires and collected survey data for all patient visits (n=34,069) made during 15 consecutive workdays. The authors modeled th...