Doctors talking with patients/patients talking with doctors
Subtitle: improving communication in medical visits
By: Debra L. Roter & Judith A. Hall.
Contributors: Hall, Judith A.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780275990145; 9780275990176
Subjects: Physician and patient.; Communication in medicine.; Communication.; Office Visits.; Physician-Patient Relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-214) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The significance of talk; title: The nature of the doctor-patient relationship; title: Thinking critically and creatively in the conception, conduct, and interpretation of medical communication research; title: The influence of patient characteristics on communication between the doctor and the patient; title: The influence of physician characteristics on communication between the doctor and patient; title: The influence of physician gender on communication: why physician gender (especially) matters in communication; title: The anatomy of a medical visit; title: Giving and withholding information: the speical case of informative talk in the medical visit; title: Consequences of talk: the relationship between talk and outcomes; title: Improving talk through interventions.