Effective physician patient communication is essential to best practice in medicine. Good communication with patients is critical in making the right diagnosis, improving compliance and overall outcomes for our patients (as well as improving physician satisfaction.) Communication skills can be learned and need to be taught, practiced and given the same emphasis as other core competencies in med...

OBJECTIVE We describe perceived physician communication behaviors and its association with adherence to care, among HIV patients in Kenya. DESIGN This cross-sectional study was conducted between July and August 2011. SETTING The study was conducted in three adult HIV clinics within the Academic Model Providing Healthcare program in western Kenya. PARTICIPANTS HIV adult patients. MAIN OU...

Traditional communication between physicians and patients consists of verbal non-verbal communication. Non-verbal can emphasize, modify, or supplement a message that is verbally conveyed reduce the possibility misunderstanding. Web applications offer ability to communicate with outside healthcare facility. E-mail selected physician patient defined as electronic doctors in contractual relationsh...

BACKGROUND Not knowing patient concerns can lead to misunderstandings, incomplete diagnoses, patient dissatisfaction, and nonadherence. Although many studies show relations between physician communication and patients' expression of cues or concerns, most of these studies are cross-sectional, thus limiting the interpretation of these relationships. Sequence analysis can show the immediate effec...

BACKGROUND In a formal needs assessment, conducted prior to the Canadian Headache Society's recent national continuing education workshop, participants expressed particular enthusiasm for enhancing their own communication skills or their teaching of those skills. OBJECTIVES Responding to both interests, this paper offers a practical conceptual framework for thinking systematically about how t...

Physicians are, by definition, contributing partners in "difficult" patient-physician encounters. Although research on relevant physician qualities is limited, common themes mirror the more extensive literature on physician burnout. Focusing on primary care, we discuss physician-level factors in difficult encounters related to psychosocial attitudes and self-awareness, communication skills, and...

OBJECTIVE Through patient-physician communication, physicians can support breast cancer patients in coping with the diagnosis and treatment of their cancer. Research on the influence of hospital characteristics on patient-reported outcomes suggests that patient-physician communication may be shaped by the hospital environment. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between hos...