Effective doctor-patient communication is a central clinical function in building a therapeutic
doctor-patient relationship, which is the heart and art of medicine. This is important in the …

Effective communication is essential to establish a good doctor-patient/parent relationship
and practice high quality medicine. It is indeed the key to build confidence, faith and trust of …

Background To assess the student perspective on acceptability, realism, and perceived
effect of communication training with peer role play (RP) and standardised patients (SP) …

Background. This research arose from a concern that the recovery of patients was being
hindered by a lack of understanding and emphasis on psychosocial care during …

OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to report suggestions for improving the informed
consent process from the perspective of parents of children with leukemia. METHODS …

Effective communication and interpersonal skills have long been recognized as fundamental
to the delivery of quality health care. However, there is mounting evidence that the pressures …

Purpose Following radiation therapy (RT), women with gynecologic malignancies report
high rates of sexual dysfunction, but little is known regarding sexual health communication …

Patients increasingly rely on online physician ratings to select their physicians and make
health care decisions. However, it is unclear whether online physician ratings signal …

Based on detailed multi-disciplinary analyses of more than 800 recorded handover
interactions, audits of written handover documentation, interviews and survey responses, the …

Aim: To describe the development and evaluation of a parent completed questionnaire to
measure parent experiences of inpatient paediatric care, the parent experiences of …