From a clinical perspective, effective and efficient communication is part of a strategy to
ensure doctors are providing high-quality care to their patients. Despite the positive impact …

Background Communication skills are fundamental to successful medical practice and can
greatly impact patient satisfaction, compliance and outcomes. This study evaluated …

Background Good communication between patients and doctors has positive effects on
health and the patients' quality of life. Communication skills can be trained. In many …

Methods: A total of 1205 Hungarian adults aged 18 years and older completed the
telephone interview as part of the international Health Literacy Survey 2019. The …

Background: Sufficient communicative health literacy (COM-HL) is important for patients
actively participating in dialogue with physicians, expressing their needs and desires for …

In 2017, EACH celebrated its change of name from European Association for
Communication in Healthcare to EACH: International Association for Communication in …

Objective To report on the initial roll-out of the National Healthcare Communication
Programme, a comprehensive intervention to improve the communication skills of Health …

Our aim is to investigate differences between European health care systems in the
importance attached by patients to different aspects of doctor–patient communication and …

Objective: Our research aims to provide an overview of the extent to which communication is
embedded in the curriculum of MPH programs in Canada. Design: We conducted an online …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the views of doctors,
nursing staff and hospitalized patients on the level of information they provide and receive …