Objective This review aimed to explore the paradigms of disclosing a cancer diagnosis with
a focus on oral and oropharyngeal cancer and patient-related considerations. Study Design …

Objective This study aims to investigate how doctor-patient online interaction affects the
integration of online and offline health services. Drawing on justice theory and the stimulus …

The implications of these studies are at a conceptual and instrumental level. A better
precision of the dimensions and variables that define the patient–physician relationship will …

This article focuses on the role of language in social-stereotype formation through
interpersonal communication. We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N= 423), in …

Background To consider the thoughts and actions of healthcare personnel in situations
when an adverse prenatal diagnosis must be communicated, including appropriate …

Objective Positive communication is advocated for physicians during consultations with
patients presenting medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), but studies generally focus on …

Background: The manner in which healthcare professionals deliver bad news affects the
way it is received, interpreted, understood, and dealt with. Despite the fact that clinicians are …

Objective Research to support guidelines for breaking bad news is lacking. This study used
an experimental paradigm to test two communication strategies, forecasting bad news and …

Many different text features influence text readability and content comprehension. Negation
is commonly suggested as one such feature, but few general-purpose tools exist to discover …

Objective: Information about treatment side effects can increase their occurrence; breast
cancer (BC) patients showed increased cognitive problem reporting (CPR) and decreased …