Background This is the third update of a review that was originally published in the
Cochrane Library in 2002, Issue 2. People with cancer, their families and carers have a high …

Background Physician empathy is both theoretically and empirically critical to patient health,
but research indicates that empathy declines throughout medical school and is lower than …

Background Educational meetings are used widely by health personnel to provide
continuing medical education and to promote implementation of innovations or translate …

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether the practice and rehearsal of communication skills is likely
to lead to better outcomes following training, and whether the use of simulated patients in …

Older adults are commonly accompanied to routine physician visits, primarily by adult
children and spouses. This is the first review of studies investigating the dynamics and …

OBJECTIVE: There is a growing amount of empirical research on empathy in medicine. This
critical review assesses methodological limitations in this body of research that have not …

Objective Group training in communication skills [communication skills training (CST)] has
become partly mandatory for oncology staff. However, so far, a comprehensive meta …

OBJECTIVES: Considering the expense of standardized patients (SP) for training
communication skills and the convenience of peer role playing (RP) there is a surprising …

Current research in communication in physician–patient consultations is multidisciplinary
and multimethodological. As this research has progressed, a considerable body of evidence …

Objective: It is not known how often physicians use metaphors and analogies, or whether
they improve patients' perceptions of their physicians' ability to communicate effectively …