Assessing patient-centered communication in a family practice setting: How do we measure it, and whose opinion matters?

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 294-302

  Clayton, Margaret F ^a   Latimer, Seth ^a   Dunn, Todd W ^b   Haas, Leonard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Wasatch Family Therapy   (United States)

^c Veteran's Administration Salt Lake City Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

Family practice; Patient centered care; Patient centered communication; Primary care; Reliability; Validity; Verbal coding schemes; Videotaping

Indexed keywords

4 HABITS CODING SCHEME; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEASURE OF PATIENT CENTERED COMMUNICATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CENTERED COMMUNICATION; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051786637     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.05.027     Document Type: Article

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