CONTEXT Health care environments have been changing rapidly, and one of the changes is to emphasize patient satisfaction. However, most studies assume that all patients integrate their health care attribute reactions in the same way to arrive at their satisfaction. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to investigate how patients' experience of pain influences their attribute reaction inte...

AIM Trust is an essential element in physician-patient interaction fostering in general adherence and improving patient- and physician-reported outcomes. Regarding severely injured patients, trust-building behaviour is important because of the severity of injuries and therefore potential associated physical and psychological consequences. The objective of this study was to identify significant ...

The aim of this study is to determine the means physıcıan -patient meeting by interviewing managers agencies, companies, medical centers and hospitals that have competence do health tourism in Samsun. Qualitative interview method was used obtain data. form created based on literature review expert opinion. conducted between 01.06.2019 01.09.2019. It aimed reach all charge working these institut...

Background and Objectives: Metabolic control and observance of dietary therapy in adolescents with type I diabetes is weaker compared to other patients—the fact which might lead to physical, mental, and social changes in such adolescents in this period of their life. Hence, adolescences are more subject to complications of diabetes. This study, accordingly, was conducted to examine the re...

There is little evidence supporting the widespread belief that regular patient-physician contact in chronic disease management leads to better patient outcomes. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship of the frequency of patient-physician contact with several patient outcomes in a prospective cohort study begun in 1995 of incident hemodialysis patients treated at 75 US dialy...

BACKGROUND Computer simulation studies of the emergency department (ED) are often patient driven and consider the physician as a human resource whose primary activity is interacting directly with the patient. In many EDs, physicians supervise delegates such as residents, physician assistants and nurse practitioners each with different skill sets and levels of independence. The purpose of this s...

We consider the task of grouping doctors with respect to communication patterns exhibited in outpatient visits. We propose a novel approach toward this end in which we model speech act transitions in conversations via a log-linear model incorporating physician specific components. We train this model over transcripts of outpatient visits annotated with speech act codes and then cluster physicia...

There is a growing emphasis in the literature on how interpersonal processes of care such as quality physician-patient communication can impact measurable health outcomes and patient satisfaction. Poor communication between the patient and physician has been significantly associated with rates of hospital admission, unintentional non-adherence to treatment, and incomplete understanding of self-...

BACKGROUND Little is known about factors contributing to children's asthma control status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The study objectives were to assess the relationship between asthma control and asthma-specific HRQoL in asthmatic children, and to examine the extent to which parental health literacy, perceived self-efficacy with patient-physician interaction, and satisfaction ...