The Parent-Physician Relationship in Pediatric Asthma Care

The parent-physician relationship in pediatric asthma care.

OBJECTIVE To examine the feasibility of using a behavioral coding system, the Five Minute Speech Sample (FMSS), to estimate the prevalence of relationship difficulties between parents and physicians in a pediatric asthma care setting. METHOD The FMSS was administered to 20 parents of children with severe, chronic asthma and to the physicians they worked with during a brief day program admissi...

Parent and child perspectives on physician communication in pediatric palliative care.

OBJECTIVE Despite growing recognition of the importance of communication with children with life-limiting illnesses and their families, there has been limited research that includes the child's perspective. The purpose of the current study was to identify the aspects of physician communication that children with life-limiting illnesses and their parents perceived to be facilitative or obstructi...

Managed care and the physician/patient relationship.

Pediatric Asthma Care 1 Running Head: PEDIATRIC ASTHMA CARE Use of Information Technology to Improve Asthma Care in the Pediatric Population

Parents' perspectives on physician-parent communication near the time of a child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit.

OBJECTIVE Communicating bad news about a child's illness is a difficult task commonly faced by intensive care physicians. Greater understanding of parents' scope of experiences with bad news during their child's hospitalization will help physicians communicate more effectively. Our objective is to describe parents' perceptions of their conversations with physicians regarding their child's termi...