Existing instruments for assessing physician communication skills: Are they valid in a computerized setting?

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 363-366

  Assis Hassid, Shiri ^a   Heart, Tsipi ^a   Reychav, Iris ^b   Pliskin, Joseph S ^a   Reis, Shmuel ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Communication skills; Communication task; Electronic medical records; EMR; Patient doctor communication; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MORROW; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEGUE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOLOGY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIDEORECORDING;

CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84888341854     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.03.017     Document Type: Article

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