background: the patient decision aids (pdas), which can facilitate the decision-making process when choosing the optimal method of treatment, are a challenge to patients. this study tried to determine the attitude of physicians on the barriers of using pdas in the way of prioritizing and proposing solutions to them. methods: this study was a cross-sectional research carried out on 150 clinical ...

in any clinical encounter, an effective physician-patient relationship is necessary for achieving the desired outcome. this outcome is successful treatment, and therefore, the relationship should be a healing one. in addition, in the islamic view, the physician is a manifestation of god’s healing attribute, which is usually undermined in everyday therapeutic communications. yet there are few em...

background and objectives: effective nurse-physician communication is essential for provision of high quality clinical care. research into nurse-physician communication is a new field in iran, and the importance of the issue calls for further investigation. in response to this necessity, this study aimed to assess nurses’ perception of nurse-physician communication in teaching hospitals affilia...

background: many of health system services are done in clinical counseling. a patient’s expectation of clinical consultation and physician office visits is to obtain diagnostic-remedial results, while such an expectation can be fulfilled only through an active relationship between the doctor and the patient. the aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of doctor- patient interaction in an e...

Background: Behavioral, social, psychological and biological factors influence health and disease; and, to achieve professional competency, physicians should be knowledgeable about their society and its inhabitants’ behavior. This knowledge will help physicians to become competent in communication, professional behavior, self-awareness, ethical reasoning, and understanding cultural and ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between physician-patient interaction and depression among African-American women. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS 1,411 African-American women completed a mailed 46-item survey on psychological well-being. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The independent variables included demographics and depressive symptomatology as measured by the CES-D. The depe...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Heightened awareness of the importance of appropriate pain management in health care delivery has stimulated researchers to examine the impact of patient pain on medical encounters. In this study, we explored how patient pain might influence the physician-patient interaction during medical visits. METHODS New adult patients (n = 509) were randomized to see primary ca...

OBJECTIVE Scribes have been used in the emergency department to improve physician productivity and patient interaction. There are no controlled, prospective studies of scribe use in the clinic setting. METHODS A prospective controlled study compared standard visits (20 minute follow-up and 40 minute new patient) to a scribe system (15 minute follow-up and 30 minute new patient) in a cardiolog...