The publication presents narrative medicine from two perspectives: medical and literary/language studies. The texts collected in it focus on: the role of narrative medicine in clinical practice, the importance of narratives about the experience of illness and disability in...
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Twelve Years of the Italian Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills (PERCS)
This article aims to describe the Italian programme to improve relationship and communication skills (PERCS-Italy) in difficult healthcare conversations. PERCS-Italy has been offered in two versions in different hospitals in Milan since 2008. Each workshop lasts ...
Interventions to improve communication between nurses and physicians in the intensive care unit: An integrative literature review
Effective communication between healthcare professionals in the intensive care unit (ICU) is particularly needed.... Nurses and doctors are very important parts of the healthcare system. Therefore, identifying strategies that would improve communication between...
Nurse-physician communication - An integrated review
The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on factors affecting nurse-physician communication and interventions developed to improve nurse-physician communication. The review considers...
Doctor-pharmacist communication in hospitals: strategies, perceptions, limitations and opportunities
Effective communication between healthcare professionals contributes to safe and efficient patient care, while lack of communication can lead to adverse patient outcomes and increased healthcare expenditure. The preference for communication...
Opportunities to improve COVID-19 provider communication resources: A systematic review
The aim of this article is to identify opportunities for the development of future curricula and tools to support communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 89 sources were included in the review. All but three articles described ...
Building Rapport and Earning the Surgical Patient's Trust in the Era of Social Distancing : Teaching Patient-Centered Communication During Video Conference Encounters to Medical Students
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the paradigm of doctor-patient communication with the rapid adoption of video-based medical visits by most of the medical community. The purpose of this article is to identify effective techniques for surgeons to build rapport during...
Video consultation during follow up care: effect on quality of care and patient- and provider attitude in patients with colorectal cancer
Video consultation is gaining importance as a possible alternative to outpatient visits. However, little is known about satisfaction and quality of care using video instead of face-to-face consultation. The aim of this observational survey study was to ...
The Image Of a Doctor in a Doctor-Patient Relathionship in the Internet ERA
This article addresses the issue of physician image in the doctor-patient relationship in the age of the Internet and the impact of the Internet on patient compliance. Patients know that their doctors have broader and deeper medical knowledge than they do, but the image of the doctor seems...
Factors Influencing Communication with Doctors via the Internet: A Cross-Sectional of 2014 HINTS Survey
While the medical encounter remains the most trusted channel for patients to obtain health information, the internet is increasingly serving as an alternative medium for doctor-patient communication. This study examines the mutual ...
Patient-centered communication in the era of electronic health records: what does the evidence say?
Patient-doctor communication is essential for patient-centred healthcare. Physicians are concerned that electronic health records negatively impact patient communication. The results showed that the use of EHRs (electronic...
Patient Satisfaction in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Individualized Patient-centered Communication
This article focuses on a review of current methods for improving patient satisfaction in obstetrics and gynaecology with the intention of further improving satisfaction by improving and combining strategies used to date. A review of studies indicating...
Simulation-Based Communication Training for General Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a simulation-based communication and training programme developed for general surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology residents. Residents responded positively to the training programme and participation in the programme improved their...
Physician's gender, communication style, patient preferences and patient satisfaction in gynecology and obstetrics: A systematic review
The purpose of this article is to review research published over the past 10 years on women seeking gynecological and obstetric care and the gender of the physician in relation to patient preferences, differences in communication style and patient satisfaction....
Humanized practices of obstetric nurses: contributions in maternal welfare
The aim of this article is to analyse the practice of obstetric nurses operating in the prenatal / delivery / postnatal ward of the University Hospital of Mato Grosso and the maternal well-being resulting from the care provided in this scenario. Results ...