Standardized Patient Cases for Skill Building in Patient-Centered, Cross-Cultural Interviewing (Stanford Gap Cases)

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...

Evidence-based guidelines for teaching patient-centered interviewing.

In a rare study of effectiveness of an interviewing method, we previously reported a randomized controlled trial demonstrating that training in a step-by-step patient-centered interviewing method improved residents' knowledge, attitudes, and skills and had a consistently positive effect on trained residents' patients. For those who wish to use this evidence-based patient-centered method as a te...

Motivational interviewing (patient-centered counseling) to address childhood obesity.

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...

‘Patient-Centered Care’ for Complex Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus—Analysis of Two Cases

PURPOSE This paper serves to apply and compare aspects of person centered care and recent consensus guidelines to two cases of older adults with poorly controlled diabetes in the context of relatively similar multimorbidity. METHODS After review of the literature regarding the shift from guidelines promoting tight control in diabetes management to individualized person centered care, as well ...