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Summer L. Williams
Researcher at Westfield State University
Publications - 14
Citations - 1742
Summer L. Williams is an academic researcher from Westfield State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Patient satisfaction & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 14 publications receiving 1584 citations. Previous affiliations of Summer L. Williams include University of California, Riverside.
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The challenge of patient adherence
TL;DR: Knowing the patient as a person allows the health professional to understand elements that are crucial to the patient's adherence: beliefs, attitudes, subjective norms, cultural context, social supports, and emotional health challenges, particularly depression.
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Health beliefs, disease severity, and patient adherence: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: In this article, a large body of empirical data exists on the prediction of patient adherence from subjective and objective assessments of health status and disease severity, which can be summarized with meta-analysis.
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Physician and patient communication training in primary care: effects on participation and satisfaction.
Kelly B. Haskard,Summer L. Williams,M. Robin DiMatteo,Robert Rosenthal,Maysel Kemp White,Michael G. Goldstein +5 more
TL;DR: Impact for improving physician-patient relationship outcomes through communication skills training is discussed, and implications for improving physicians' satisfaction with interpersonal aspects of professional life are discussed.
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The therapeutic effects of the physician-older patient relationship: effective communication with vulnerable older patients.
TL;DR: This review offers guidelines for improved physician-older patient communication in medical practice, and examines interventions to coordinate care for older patients on multiple dimensions of a biopsychosocial model of health care.
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The Provider’s Voice: Patient Satisfaction and the Content-filtered Speech of Nurses and Physicians in Primary Medical Care
TL;DR: Ratings of affect in the CF voices of physicians and nurses correlated with their patients’ satisfaction, and theCF voices of nurses and patients reflected their satisfaction, suggesting reciprocity in their vocal affective communication