The goal of patient-centered communication (PCC) is to help practitioners provide care that
is concordant with the patient's values, needs and preferences, and that allows patients to …

Background: Patients’ trust in their health care providers may affect their satisfaction and health
outcomes. Despite the potential importance of trust, there are few studies of its correlates …

PURPOSE Although patient-centered communication is associated with improved health
and patient trust, information about the impact of patient-centered communication on health …

Importance Observational studies demonstrate links between patient-centered communication,
quality of life (QOL), and aggressive treatments in advanced cancer, yet few randomized …

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects 1 percent of the population in all
cultures. It affects equal numbers of men and women, but the onset is often later in women than …

Satisfaction with information is an important patient outcome and may be related to the
physician's ability to elicit the patients’ concerns, to consider the patients’ psychosocial needs, …

BACKGROUND Previous work suggests that exploration and validation of patients’ concerns
is associated with greater patient trust, lower health care costs, improved counseling, and …

The associations between social relationships and health have been examined using two
major research traditions. Using a social epidemiological approach, much research has …

Importance Physicians may be important sources of sexuality information and preventive
services, and one-on-one confidential time during health maintenance visits is recommended …

This paper reports on the development, reliability, and validity of a self‐report scale to assess
from the recipients' perspective two factors derived from Expressed Emotion (EE) theroy. …