Robert C. Smith

TL;DR: This scale meets performance criteria for a brief, patient completed instrument that can be used to assess RLS severity for purposes of clinical assessment, research, or therapeutic trials and supports a finding that RLS is a relatively uniform disorder in which the severity of the basic symptoms is strongly related to their impact on the patient's life.

TL;DR: A 2001 systematic review of the effects of these training interventions for healthcare providers that aim to promote patient-centred care in clinical consultations was updated by as discussed by the authors, who found 29 new randomized trials (up to June 2010), bringing the total of studies included in the review to 43.

TL;DR: A large International Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Study Group has been formed as discussed by the authors, which has taken upon itself the role of definig the clinical features of the RLS, including sleep disturbance, periodic limb movements in sleep and similar involuntary movements while awake, a normal neurological examination in the idiopathic from, a tendency for the symptoms to be worse in middle to older age, and a family history suggestive of an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance.

TL;DR: This article describes how patient-centered interviewing is done, how it is integrated with the physician-centered approach, and how to understand the product of this complementary approach to clinical interviewing, the patient's biopsychosocial story.

TL;DR: An intensive training program for primary care residents in interviewing and related psychosocial topics in medicine is developed and tested, finding that the patients of trained residents would have greater satisfaction, fewer somatic symptoms, less social dysfunction, less depression and anxiety, and reduced functional disability.