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Information-giving in medical consultations: the influence of patients' communicative styles and personal characteristics.
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It is argued that the amount of information physicians provide patients during medical consultations may be influenced by two sets of factors, patients' personal characteristics (age, sex, education, and anxiety) and patients' communicative styles (question-asking, opinion-giving, and expression of concern).About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1991-01-01. It has received 399 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Assertiveness.read more
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Health literacy : a prescription to end confusion
TL;DR: Health Literacy: Prescription to End Confusion examines the body of knowledge that applies to the field of health literacy, and recommends actions to promote a health literate society.
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Resource Manual for Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice
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Doctor-patient communication: a review of the literature.
TL;DR: Consequences of specific physician behaviors on certain patient outcomes, namely: satisfaction, compliance/adherence to treatment, recall and understanding of information, and health status/psychiatric morbidity are described.
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Information Needs and Decisional Preferences in Women With Breast Cancer
Lesley F. Degner,Linda J. Kristjanson,David M. Bowman,Jeff A. Sloan,Keumhee C. Carriere,John O’Neil,Barbara Bilodeau,Peter H. Watson,Bryan Mueller +8 more
TL;DR: Priorities for information identified in this study provide an empirical basis to guide communication with women seeking care for breast cancer and suggest systematic approaches to assess and respond to women's desired level of participation in treatment decision making need to be evaluated.
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Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences
TL;DR: In this article, the Mathematical Basis for Multiple Regression/Correlation and Identification of the Inverse Matrix Elements is presented. But it does not address the problem of missing data.
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A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation
TL;DR: Turn-taking is used for the ordering of moves in games, for allocating political office, for regulating traffic at intersections, for the servicing of customers at business establishments, and for talking in interviews, meetings, debates, ceremonies, conversations.
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Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences.
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Assessing the effects of physician-patient interactions on the outcomes of chronic disease.
TL;DR: It is concluded that the physician-patient relationship may be an important influence on patients' health outcomes and must be taken into account in light of current changes in the health care delivery system that may place this relationship at risk.
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Expanding patient involvement in care. Effects on patient outcomes.
TL;DR: In this paper, patients were helped to read their medical record and coached to ask questions and negotiate medical decisions with their physicians during a 20-minute session before their regularly scheduled visit.