Physician-Patient Relations

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Don't Talk to Them About Goals of Care": Understanding Disparities in Advance Care Planning. 
  • "Harvey," the cardiology patient simulator: pilot studies on teaching effectiveness. 
  • "How Much Time Do I Have?": Communicating Prognosis in the Era of Exceptional Responders. 
  • "I Already Know That Smoking Ain't Good for Me": Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Lung Cancer Screening Decision-Making Discussions as a Teachable Moment. 
  • "I'm Trying To Be the Safety Net": Family Protection of Patients With Moderate-To-Severe TBI During the Hospital Stay. 
  • "Reality surgery"--a research ethics perspective on the live broadcast of surgical procedures. 
  • "What should I do, doc?": Some psychologic benefits of physician recommendations. 
  • "Why can't I move, Doc?" Ethical dilemmas in treating conversion disorders. 
  • "You just do your part. God will do the rest.": spirituality and culture in the medical encounter. 
  • 7th College of Physicians lecture: the changing face of medicine, medicine: past, present and future. 
  • A Gay Couple Meets Their Mormon Doctor. 
  • A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Antiretroviral Treatment Preferences: What Do Patients Really Want? 
  • A Research Agenda for the Question Prompt List in Outpatient Palliative Care. 
  • A Review of Empathy, Its Importance, and Its Teaching in Surgical Training. 
  • A Survey of Medical Student Experiences of Patients' Religion and Spirituality at One Medical School. 
  • A Touchy Subject: Can Physicians Improve Value by Discussing Costs and Clinical Benefits With Patients? 
  • A Video-Based Module for Teaching Communication Skills to Otolaryngology Residents. 
  • A Web-based communication aid for patients with cancer: the CONNECT Study. 
  • A case of racism and reconciliation. 
  • A like sufferer. 
  • A matter of perspective: choosing for others differs from choosing for yourself in making treatment decisions. 
  • A piece of my mind. A perfect match. 
  • A piece of my mind: paying attention. 
  • A qualitative descriptive study of the work of adherence to a chronic heart failure regimen: patient and physician perspectives. 
  • A simple, flexible and scalable approach for generating tailored questionnaires and health education messages. 
  • A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • A survey of sports medicine physicians regarding psychological issues in patient-athletes. 
  • A typology of preferences for participation in healthcare decision making. 
  • ACC/AHA/AACVPR/AAFP/ANA concepts for clinician-patient shared accountability in performance measures: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. 
  • Accuracy and congruence of physician and adolescent patient weight-related discussions: Teen CHAT (Communicating health: Analyzing talk). 
  • Actual and Missed Opportunities for End-of-Life Care Discussions With Oncology Patients: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Adherence to antiretroviral therapy among patients with HIV: a critical link between behavioral and biomedical sciences. 
  • Adherence to mental health treatment in a primary care clinic. 
  • Adolescent preferences and reactions to language about body weight. 
  • Adult cancer survivors discuss follow-up in primary care: 'not what i want, but maybe what i need'. 
  • Advance care planning in Medicare: an early look at the impact of new reimbursement on billing and clinical practice. 
  • Agency is messy: get used to it. 
  • Alternative therapy use by psychiatric outpatients. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology guidance statement: the cost of cancer care. 
  • Among emergency physicians, use of the term "Sickler" is associated with negative attitudes toward people with sickle cell disease. 
  • An Ethical and Legal Framework for Physicians as Surrogate Decision-Makers for Their Patients. 
  • An assessment of US physicians' training in religion, spirituality, and medicine. 
  • An unequal burden: poor patient-provider communication and sickle cell disease. 
  • Applying the resources and supports in self-management framework to examine ophthalmologist-patient communication and glaucoma medication adherence. 
  • Approaching End-of-Life Decisions in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Arrow's concept of the health care consumer: a forty-year retrospective. 
  • Assessing Interpersonal and Communication Skills. 
  • Assessing interpersonal and communication skills in emergency medicine. 
  • Assessing the Role of the Family/Support System Perspective in Patients With Glaucoma. 
  • Assessment of quality of cancer-related follow-up care from the cancer survivor's perspective. 
  • Assisted suicide and the case of Dr. Quill and Diane. 
  • Association Among Opioid Use, Treatment Preferences, and Perceptions of Physician Treatment Recommendations in Patients With Neck and Back Pain. 
  • Attention to inpatients' religious and spiritual concerns: predictors and association with patient satisfaction. 
  • Attitudes of paediatric and obstetric specialists towards prenatal surgery for lethal and non-lethal conditions. 
  • Attitudes toward clinical trials among patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Attitudes toward neurosurgery in a low-income country: a qualitative study. 
  • Attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide among physicians in Vermont. 
  • Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Behavioral sciences in clinical practice. 
  • Behind closed doors: management of patient expectations in primary care practices. 
  • Being Right Isn't Always Enough: NFL Culture and Team Physicians' Conflict of Interest. 
  • Beliefs and communication practices regarding cognitive functioning among consumers and primary care providers in the United States, 2009. 
  • Benefits of coronary revascularization: a failure to communicate. 
  • Best Practices for Obtaining Genomic Consent in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Research. 
  • Beyond costs and benefits: understanding how patients make health care decisions. 
  • Beyond drug therapy: nonpharmacologic care of the patient with advanced heart failure. 
  • Big ideas to help your practice thrive. 
  • Breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy decisions in older women: the role of patient preference and interactions with physicians. 
  • Breast cancer oral anti-cancer medication adherence: a systematic review of psychosocial motivators and barriers. 
  • Bringing new therapies to patients--what is the proper physician-industry relationship? 
  • British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of irritable bowel syndrome. 
  • Broaching goals-of-care conversations in advancing pediatric cancer. 
  • Building trust: Reflecting on the earliest human experience. 
  • By intuitions differently formed: how physicians assess and respond to spiritual issues in the clinical encounter. 
  • CAM providers' messages to conventional medicine: a qualitative study. 
  • CORR Insights(®): Time Seeing a Hand Surgeon Is Not Associated With Patient Satisfaction. 
  • Can Appealing to Patient Altruism Reduce Overuse of Health Care Services? An Experimental Survey. 
  • Can a Surgeon Refuse to Operate When an Advance Directive Limits Postoperative Care? 
  • Can metaphors and analogies improve communication with seriously ill patients? 
  • Can this patient read and understand written health information? 
  • Cancer patient preferences for quality and length of life. 
  • Cancer therapy costs influence treatment: a national survey of oncologists. 
  • Care and Cancer Screening of the Transgender Population. 
  • Cervical screening and general physical examination behaviors of women exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol. 
  • Characteristics Associated with Confidential Consultation for Adolescents in Primary Care. 
  • Charlie's List. 
  • Chasing the care: soldiers experience following combat-related mild traumatic brain injury. 
  • Children's mental health as a primary care and concern: a system for comprehensive support and service. 
  • Chronic daily headache in a primary care population: prevalence and headache impact test scores. 
  • Clinic Satisfaction Tool Improves Communication and Provides Real-Time Feedback. 
  • Clinician-patient E-mail communication: challenges for reimbursement. 
  • Coagulopathy after cardiopulmonary bypass in Jehovah's Witness patients: management of two cases using fractionated components and factor VIIa. 
  • Collaborative care, physician training, Balint groups, burnout, and somatic symptom disorder. 
  • Communicating With Patients--The Other Side of the Conversation. 
  • Communication Predicts Medication Self-Efficacy in Glaucoma Patients. 
  • Communication and Healthcare: Self-Reports of People with Hearing Loss in Primary Care Settings. 
  • Communication around palliative care principles and advance care planning between oncologists, children with advancing cancer and families. 
  • Communication factors in the follow-up of abnormal mammograms. 
  • Communication skills training in the twenty-first century. 
  • Communitarians and medical ethicists: or "why I am none of the above". 
  • Comparison of patient and surgeon perceptions of adverse events after adult spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Compassion and Health Care: A Discussion With the Dalai Lama. 
  • Compassionate care: enhancing physician-patient communication and education in dermatology: Part I: Patient-centered communication. 
  • Compassionate care: enhancing physician-patient communication and education in dermatology: Part II: Patient education. 
  • Competence and complacency. 
  • Complementary and alternative medicine. The importance of doctor-patient communication. 
  • Computerized knowledge management in diabetes care. 
  • Connecting at the Webside: Rapid Telehealth Implementation for Musculoskeletal Clinicians. 
  • Conscience and the Way of Medicine. 
  • Conscientious refusals to refer: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Continental Divide? The attitudes of US and Canadian oncologists on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and health policies associated with new cancer drugs. 
  • Contracts with patients in clinical practice. 
  • Coronary catherization patient and wife's perceptions of social support: effects due to characteristics of recipient, provider, and their interaction. 
  • Cost-related health literacy: a key component of high-quality cancer care. 
  • Counseling of patients by pharmacists. Blessing or curse? 
  • Courage and Compassion: Virtues in Caring for So-Called "Difficult" Patients. 
  • Cranberry use among pediatric nephrology patients. 
  • Cultural and Social Challenges of Diabetes Self-Management Education Through Physicians' Voices. 
  • Decisional involvement and information preferences of patients with hematologic malignancies. 
  • Deficits and variations in patients' experience with making 9 common medical decisions: the DECISIONS survey. 
  • Definitely, Maybe: Helping Patients Make Decisions about Surgery When Prognosis Is Uncertain. 
  • Development and implementation of an online program to improve how patients communicate emotional concerns to their oncology providers. 
  • Difficult conversations: a national course for neurosurgery residents in physician-patient communication. 
  • Dimensions of patient and physician roles in medical screening interviews. 
  • Direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. 
  • Directive counsel and morally controversial medical decision-making: findings from two national surveys of primary care physicians. 
  • Disclosure of Sexual Intercourse by Teenagers: Agreement Between Telephone Survey Responses and Annual Visit Disclosures. 
  • Discordance Between Advanced Cancer Patients' Perceived and Preferred Roles in Decision Making and its Association with Psychological Distress and Perceived Quality of Care. 
  • Discordant Perceptions of Prognosis and Treatment Options Between Physicians and Patients With Advanced Heart Failure. 
  • Discussing Health Care Expenses in the Oncology Clinic: Analysis of Cost Conversations in Outpatient Encounters. 
  • Discussing Out-of-Pocket Expenses During Clinical Appointments: An Observational Study of Patient-Psychiatrist Interactions. 
  • Discussions of the kidney disease trajectory by elderly patients and nephrologists: a qualitative study. 
  • Disseminating effective clinician communication techniques: Engaging clinicians to want to learn how to engage patients. 
  • Distant wheezes. 
  • Do Surgeons Treat Their Patients Like They Would Treat Themselves? 
  • Do clinicians tell patients they have prehypertension? 
  • Do patient attributes predict oncologist empathic responses and patient perceptions of empathy? 
  • Do patients want access to their medical records? 
  • Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction? 
  • Do women prefer care from female or male obstetrician-gynecologists? A study of patient gender preference. 
  • Do you mind if I record?: Perceptions and practice regarding patient requests to record clinic visits in oncology. 
  • Doctor Who? A Quality Improvement Project to Assess and Improve Patients' Knowledge of Their Inpatient Physicians. 
  • Doctor talk: technology and modern conversation. 
  • Does labeling prenatal screening test results as negative or positive affect a woman's responses? 
  • Does participatory decision making improve hypertension self-care behaviors and outcomes? 
  • Doing everything. 
  • Doing everything. 
  • Don't ask, don't tell? Revealing placebo responses to research participants and patients. 
  • Dropouts versus completers among chronically depressed outpatients. 
  • Drug compliance in adolescents: assessing and managing modifiable risk factors. 
  • Education Research: The medical student perspective on challenging conversations. 
  • Effect of patient and patient-oncologist relationship characteristics on communication about health-related quality of life. 
  • Effective patient-provider communication about sexual concerns in breast cancer: a qualitative study. 
  • Effects of counseling techniques on patients' weight-related attitudes and behaviors in a primary care clinic. 
  • Effects of educational intervention in waiting room on patient satisfaction. 
  • Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the oncology clinic: how clinician interaction with EHRs can improve communication with the patient. 
  • Empathy goes a long way in weight loss discussions. 
  • Empowering communication: a community-based intervention for patients. 
  • Empowerment Failure: How Shortcomings in Physician Communication Unwittingly Undermine Patient Autonomy. 
  • End-stage renal disease treatment options education: What matters most to patients and families. 
  • Engaging Multidisciplinary Stakeholders to Drive Shared Decision-Making in Oncology. 
  • Engaging Survivors of Critical Illness in Health Care Assessment and Policy Development. Ethical and Practical Complexities. 
  • Enhancing communication between oncologists and patients with a computer-based training program: a randomized trial. 
  • Erosion in medical students' attitudes about telling patients they are students. 
  • Estimated time spent on preventive services by primary care physicians. 
  • Ethical considerations in research involving human subjects. 
  • Ethical ramifications of alternative means of recruiting research participants from cancer registries. 
  • Ethical standards for cardiothoracic surgeons' participation in social media. 
  • Ethnicity and physician-older patient communication about alternative therapies. 
  • Evaluation of agreement between physicians' notation of 'no evidence of disease' (NED) and patients' report of cancer status. 
  • Evaluation of behavior and development training for pediatric residents. 
  • Evidence-based risk communication: a systematic review. 
  • Examining emergency department communication through a staff-based participatory research method: identifying barriers and solutions to meaningful change. 
  • Examining the context and helpfulness of family companion contributions to older adults' primary care visits. 
  • Examining the relationship between clinician communication and patient participatory behaviors in cardiology encounters. 
  • Exploration of fairness in health services: a qualitative analysis. 
  • Exploring the Preferences of Women Regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in the Context of Rheumatology: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Facilitated psychiatric advance directives: a randomized trial of an intervention to foster advance treatment planning among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Facilitators Associated With Building and Sustaining Therapeutic Alliance in Advanced Pediatric Cancer. 
  • Factitious vesicocutaneous fistula: an enigma in diagnosis and treatment. 
  • Factors Affecting Care in Non-English-Speaking Patients and Families. 
  • Factors associated with patient-recalled smoking cessation advice in a low-income clinic. 
  • Factors associated with repeat mammography screening. 
  • Factors influencing medical student self-competence to provide weight management services. 
  • Factors that prompted families to file medical malpractice claims following perinatal injuries 
  • Family Planning Counseling for Women With Rheumatic Diseases. 
  • Family planning and pregnancy issues for women with systemic inflammatory diseases: patient and physician perspectives. 
  • Family therapy and the dementia patient. 
  • Gain-loss framing and patients' decisions: a linguistic examination of information framing in physician-patient conversations. 
  • Gender differences in acute and chronic pain in the emergency department: results of the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference pain section. 
  • Genetic testing: clinical and personal utility. 
  • Getting patients to stop smoking. 
  • Glaucoma patient-provider communication about vision quality-of-life. 
  • God at the bedside. 
  • Grief, interrupted. 
  • Grievances against physicians: 11 years' experience of a medical society grievance committee. 
  • Growing the path to the patient: an editorial outlook for Alternative therapies. 
  • Health care costs in the last week of life: associations with end-of-life conversations. 
  • Health information technology (IT) to improve the care of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). 
  • Health needs and barriers to healthcare of women who have experienced intimate partner violence. 
  • Hearing the story. The persisting importance of the history in a technological age. 
  • Helping clinicians who care for trauma survivors. 
  • Hispanic ethnicity, language, and depression: physician-patient communication and patient use of alternative treatments. 
  • Homeless women's experiences of service provider encounters. 
  • House calls to Cardinal Jackson. 
  • How Christian ethics became medical ethics: the case of Paul Ramsey. 
  • How Primary Care Providers Talk to Patients about Genome Sequencing Results: Risk, Rationale, and Recommendation. 
  • How Should Physicians Respond to Patient Requests for Religious Concordance? 
  • How can healthcare organizations improve cost-of-care conversations? A qualitative exploration of clinicians' perspectives. 
  • How direct-to-consumer television advertising for osteoarthritis drugs affects physicians' prescribing behavior. 
  • How disclosing HMO physician incentives affects trust. 
  • How do medical residents discuss resuscitation with patients? 
  • How glaucoma patient characteristics, self-efficacy and patient-provider communication are associated with eye drop technique. 
  • How oncologists and their patients with advanced cancer communicate about health-related quality of life. 
  • Hypertension improvement project: randomized trial of quality improvement for physicians and lifestyle modification for patients. 
  • Identification of provider characteristics influencing prescription of analgesics: a systematic literature review. 
  • Identifying types of sex conversations in adolescent health maintenance visits. 
  • Immigrant and refugee health: cross-cultural communication. 
  • Impact of Pre-visit Contextual Data Collection on Patient-Physician Communication and Patient Activation: a Randomized Trial. 
  • Impact of Video Education on Patient Knowledge, Anxiety, and Satisfaction in Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty: A Pilot Study. 
  • Impact of an automated test results management system on patients' satisfaction about test result communication. 
  • Impact of physician attire on patients' impression of their gynecologist: Results from a large single-center survey analysis. 
  • Impact of the Cancer Risk Intake System on patient-clinician discussions of tamoxifen, genetic counseling, and colonoscopy. 
  • Implementing practice-linked pre-visit electronic journals in primary care: patient and physician use and satisfaction. 
  • Importance of quality-of-life priorities and preferences surrounding treatment decision making in patients with cancer and oncology clinicians. 
  • Improving Access to Cancer Testing and Treatment in Kenya. 
  • Improving Medication Adherence in Coronary Heart Disease. 
  • Improving information provision for neurosurgical patients: a qualitative study. 
  • Improving racial disparities in unmet palliative care needs among intensive care unit family members with a needs-targeted app intervention: The ICUconnect randomized clinical trial. 
  • In Their Shoes. 
  • In the clinic. Palliative care. 
  • Incorporating MI techniques into physician counseling. 
  • Increasing Discussions of Intimate Partner Violence in Prenatal Care Using Video Doctor Plus Provider Cueing: A Randomized, Controlled Trial 
  • Increasing Engagement of African American Patients with Glaucoma during Medical Encounters: Creation of a Pre-visit Video. 
  • Independent activities for student learning during community-based rotations. 
  • Industrialized health care and midcareer crises. 
  • Influence of stereotyping in smoking cessation counseling by primary care residents. 
  • Information Framing Reduces Initial Negative Attitudes in Cancer Patients' Decisions About Hospice Care. 
  • Informed Decision Making: Assessment of the Quality of Physician Communication about Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. 
  • Informing patients of diagnostic mammography results: mammographer's opinions. 
  • Initiation and discontinuation of hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms: results from a community sample. 
  • Integrating Spirituality Into Outpatient Practice in the Adventist Health System. 
  • Integrating spirituality into the care of older adults. 
  • Integration of Palliative Care into Acute Myeloid Leukemia Care. 
  • Integrative medicine: bringing medicine back to its roots. 
  • Integrity and Conscience in Medical Ethics: A Ciceronian Perspective . 
  • Interaction exchange structure and patient satisfaction with medical interviews. 
  • International consensus statement on major depressive disorder. 
  • Interrogation and interview: strategies for obtaining clinical data. 
  • Is God good for your health? The role of spirituality in medical care. 
  • Is religious devotion relevant to the doctor-patient relationship? 
  • It's not you, It's me: The influence of patient and surgeon gender on patient satisfaction scores. 
  • It's the patient, stupid! 
  • It's time to have 'the talk': cost communication and patient-centered care. 
  • Jewish physicians' beliefs and practices regarding religion/spirituality in the clinical encounter. 
  • Knowledge about genomic recurrence risk testing among breast cancer survivors. 
  • Korean Physicians' Perspectives on Prognostication in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Language barriers and patient-centered breast cancer care. 
  • Language disparities between patients and dermatologists in describing acne lesions. 
  • Late-life watercolors, a friendship, and a fall. 
  • Let's Talk About Those Herbs You Are Taking: Ethical Considerations for Communication With Patients With Cancer About Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 
  • Limits and responsibilities of physicians addressing spiritual suffering in terminally ill patients. 
  • Low carbohydrate diets in family practice: what can we learn from an internet-based support group. 
  • MSJAMA: religion, spirituality, and medicine: application to clinical practice. 
  • MSJAMA: religion, spirituality, and medicine: application to clinical practice. 
  • Management of Type 1 Diabetes With a Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet. 
  • Managing uncertainty: a grounded theory of stigma in transgender health care encounters. 
  • Measuring Patterns of Surgeon Confidence Using a Novel Assessment Tool. 
  • Medical Paternalism 
  • Medical student name tags. 
  • Medical student name tags: identification or obfuscation? 
  • Medical students become patients: a new teaching strategy. 
  • Medication taking behaviors among breast cancer patients on adjuvant endocrine therapy. 
  • Meeting the needs of primary care physicians: a guide to content for programs on depression. 
  • Money talks, patients walk? 
  • Moral controversy, directive counsel, and the doctor's role: findings from a national survey of obstetrician-gynecologists. 
  • Moral engagement, combat trauma, and the lure of psychiatric dualism: why psychiatry is more than a technical discipline. 
  • Moving beyond disclosure: women's perspectives on barriers and motivators to seeking assistance for intimate partner violence. 
  • Multifaceted intervention to improve medication adherence and secondary prevention measures after acute coronary syndrome hospital discharge: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Multisource Evaluation of Surgeon Behavior Is Associated With Malpractice Claims. 
  • Myocardial infarction--Case studies of ethics in the consent situation. 
  • National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference statement: hydroxyurea treatment for sickle cell disease. 
  • Navigating prognostic communication when children with poor-prognosis cancer experience prolonged disease stability. 
  • Neurodevelopmental Risk: A Tool to Enhance Conversations With Families of Infants. 
  • No heroic measures: how soon is too soon to stop? 
  • No-suicide contracts: an overview and recommendations. 
  • Nonabandonment: medical ethics. 
  • Nonabandonment: medical ethics. 
  • Not all participatory styles are created equal. 
  • Not by the books. 
  • Nursery songs. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologist physicians' beliefs about emergency contraception: a national survey. 
  • Obstetricians' prior malpractice experience and patients' satisfaction with care. 
  • On-call: now, and then. 
  • Oncologist communication about emotion during visits with patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Oncologist patient-centered communication with patients with advanced cancer: exploring whether race or socioeconomic status matter. 
  • Open Oncology Notes: A Qualitative Study of Oncology Patients' Experiences Reading Their Cancer Care Notes. 
  • Ophthalmologist-patient communication, self-efficacy, and glaucoma medication adherence. 
  • Outcomes of physician job satisfaction: a narrative review, implications, and directions for future research. 
  • Outcomes, preferences for resuscitation, and physician-patient communication among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Overcoming barriers to discussing out-of-pocket costs with patients. 
  • Overriding psychiatric advance directives: factors associated with psychiatrists' decisions to preempt patients' advance refusal of hospitalization and medication. 
  • Parents' expectations regarding their children's eye care: interview results. 
  • Parents' worries about recurrent abdominal pain in children. 
  • Partnership with patients: a prescription for ICU safety. 
  • Patient Anxiety Before and Immediately After Imaging-Guided Breast Biopsy Procedures: Impact of Radiologist-Patient Communication. 
  • Patient Education and Support During CKD Transitions: When the Possible Becomes Probable. 
  • Patient and Caregiver Opinions of Motivational Interviewing Techniques In Role-Played Palliative Care Conversations: A Pilot Study. 
  • Patient and family communication during consultation visits: The effects of a decision aid for treatment decision-making for localized prostate cancer. 
  • Patient and physician decision styles and breast cancer chemotherapy use in older women: Cancer and Leukemia Group B protocol 369901. 
  • Patient and provider preferences for survivorship care plans. 
  • Patient anxiety before and immediately after imaging-guided breast biopsy procedures: impact of radiologist-patient communication. 
  • Patient behavior if given their surgeon's cellular telephone number. 
  • Patient characteristics, experiences and perceived value of pharmacogenetic testing from a single testing laboratory. 
  • Patient expectations of benefit from phase I clinical trials: linguistic considerations in diagnosing a therapeutic misconception. 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: focus group results. 
  • Patient experience and attitudes toward addressing the cost of breast cancer care. 
  • Patient experiences with communication about sex during and after treatment for cancer. 
  • Patient experiences with pharmacogenetic testing in a primary care setting. 
  • Patient exposition and physician explanation in initial medical interviews and outcomes of clinic visits. 
  • Patient satisfaction in resident and attending ambulatory care clinics. 
  • Patient understanding of medical jargon: a survey study of U.S. medical students. 
  • Patient- and Family-Centered Hospital Care-The Need for Structural Humility. 
  • Patient-Clinician Discordance in Perceptions of Treatment Risks and Benefits in Older Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. 
  • Patient-Family Agenda Setting for Primary Care Patients with Cognitive Impairment: the SAME Page Trial. 
  • Patient-Physician Communication on Medication Cost during Glaucoma Visits. 
  • Patient-Provider Internet Portals-Patient Outcomes and Use. 
  • Patient-clinician interactions and disparities in breast cancer care: the equality in breast cancer care study. 
  • Patient-oncologist communication in advanced cancer: predictors of patient perception of prognosis. 
  • Patient-oncologist cost communication, financial distress, and medication adherence. 
  • Patient-physician communication about early stage prostate cancer: analysis of overall visit structure. 
  • Patient-physician discussions about costs: definitions and impact on cost conversation incidence estimates. 
  • Patient-provider communication about gestational weight gain among nulliparous women: a qualitative study of the views of obstetricians and first-time pregnant women. 
  • Patient-reported outcomes to initiate a provider-patient dialog for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Patients' perceptions of safety if interpersonal continuity of care were to be disrupted. 
  • Patients, physicians, and clinical trials: the other side of the coins. 
  • Payment Reform to Enhance Collaboration of Primary Care and Cardiology: A Review. 
  • Pediatric Integrative Medicine. 
  • Perceived Discrimination and Reported Trust and Satisfaction with Providers in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Perceived breast cancer risk: Heuristic reasoning and search for a dominance structure 
  • Perceived comfort level of medical students and residents in handling clinical ethics issues. 
  • Perceived discrimination, patient trust, and adherence to medical recommendations among persons with sickle cell disease. 
  • Perceived discrimination, trust in physicians, and prolonged symptom duration before ovarian cancer diagnosis in the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study. 
  • Perceptions about female urinary incontinence: a systematic review. 
  • Perceptions of patients and physicians regarding phase I cancer clinical trials: implications for physician-patient communication. 
  • Perspectives about complementary and alternative medicine in rheumatology. 
  • Philanthropy for Science: Is It a Viable Option? 
  • Physician Experience and Attitudes Toward Addressing the Cost of Cancer Care. 
  • Physician Perspective. 
  • Physician Perspectives on Long-Term Relationships and Friendships with Patients: A National Assessment. 
  • Physician Recommendations Trump Patient Preferences in Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions. 
  • Physician Weight-Related Counseling Is Unrelated to Extreme Weight Loss Behaviors Among Overweight and Obese Adolescents. 
  • Physician attitudes and experience with permit applications for concealed weapons. 
  • Physician attitudes toward treatment of depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Physician communication styles in initial consultations for hematological cancer. 
  • Physician communication techniques and weight loss in adults: Project CHAT. 
  • Physician empathy and listening: associations with patient satisfaction and autonomy. 
  • Physician office visits of adults for anxiety disorders in the United States, 1985-1998. 
  • Physician perspectives on the role of religion in the physician-older patient relationship. 
  • Physician's role in addressing spiritual needs. 
  • Physician-patient communication about over-the-counter medications. 
  • Physicians recommend different treatments for patients than they would choose for themselves. 
  • Physicians' Opinions on Engaging Patients' Religious and Spiritual Concerns: A National Survey. 
  • Physicians' assurances of confidentiality and time spent alone with adolescents during primary care visits. 
  • Physicians' experiences with patient-initiated health insurance fraud. 
  • Physicians' preferences and attitudes about end-of-life care in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. 
  • Pilot Study to Improve Goals of Care Conversations Among Hospitalists. 
  • Postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: synthesis of the evidence on how best to deliver the news. 
  • Practice characteristics and HMO enrollee satisfaction with specialty care: an analysis of patients with glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Practices and attitudes towards radiation risk disclosure for computed tomography: survey of emergency medicine residency program directors. 
  • Predicting patient satisfaction from physicians' nonverbal communication skills. 
  • Predictors of hospitalised patients' preferences for physician-directed medical decision-making. 
  • Predictors of primary care physicians' self-reported intention to conduct suicide risk assessments. 
  • Predictors of weight loss communication in primary care encounters. 
  • Preferences, knowledge, communication and patient-physician discussion of living kidney transplantation in African American families. 
  • Price Transparency for Whom? In Search of Out-of-Pocket Cost Estimates to Facilitate Cost Communication in Cancer Care. 
  • Primary Care Providers' Comfort Levels in Caring for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Primary care physician decision making regarding severe obesity treatment and bariatric surgery: a qualitative study. 
  • Primary care physicians' discussions of weight-related topics with overweight and obese adolescents: results from the Teen CHAT Pilot study. 
  • Primary care provider views of the current referral-to-eye-care process: focus group results. 
  • Primary care providers. The view from where I stand. 
  • Principal/agent theory and decision making in health care. 
  • Professional e-mail communication among health care providers: proposing evidence-based guidelines. 
  • Professional secrecy: a vincible right. 
  • Professionalism: etiquette or habitus? 
  • Project on the Good Physician: A Proposal for a Moral Intuitionist Model of Virtuous Caring. 
  • Promoting timely goals of care conversations between gynecologic cancer patients at high-risk of death and their providers. 
  • Provider encouragement of breast-feeding: evidence from a national survey. 
  • Provider perceptions on the management of lupus during pregnancy: barriers to improved care. 
  • Providing guidance to patients: physicians' views about the relative responsibilities of doctors and religious communities. 
  • Proxies and consent discussions for dementia research. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives: a tool for consumer empowerment and recovery. 
  • Quality of patient-physician discussions about CKD in primary care: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Quality of reproductive health services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients. 
  • Race as a predictor of patient preferences for biopsy result communication. 
  • Racial differences in health concern. 
  • Racial differences in physician recommendation of hormone replacement therapy. 
  • Racial disparities in Black men with prostate cancer: A literature review. 
  • Radiologist-Patient Communication: Current Practices and Barriers to Communication in Breast Imaging. 
  • Re: Incorporation of patient preferences in the treatment of upper urinary tract calculi: a decision analytical view. 
  • Reasons for discontinuation and continuation of antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia from patient and clinician perspectives. 
  • Recommendations for Providers on Person-Centered Approaches to Assess and Improve Medication Adherence. 
  • Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications. 
  • Religion, spirituality and health: an American physician's response. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: a rebuttal to skeptics. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: psychiatrists' and other physicians' differing observations, interpretations, and clinical approaches. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and medicine: research findings and implications for clinical practice. 
  • Religiosity/spirituality of German doctors in private practice and likelihood of addressing R/S issues with patients. 
  • Religious and spiritual beliefs of gynecologic oncologists may influence medical decision making. 
  • Religious hospitals and primary care physicians: conflicts over policies for patient care. 
  • Reported cessation advice given to African Americans by health care providers in a community health clinic. 
  • Requiem for the sounds of silence. 
  • Research participants' high expectations of benefit in early-phase oncology trials: are we asking the right question? 
  • Research use of electronic health records: patients' perspectives on contact by researchers. 
  • Resident Physician Experiences With and Responses to Biased Patients. 
  • Resuscitation preferences among patients with severe congestive heart failure: results from the SUPPORT project. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Rethinking the objectives of decision aids: a call for conceptual clarity. 
  • Review of the patient-centered communication landscape in multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies. 
  • Right Brain: Breaking bad news: Communication education for neurology trainees. 
  • Risk communication: coping with imperfection. 
  • Role in decision making among congestive heart failure patients and its association with patient outcomes: a baseline analysis of the SCOPAH study. 
  • Role of Google Glass in improving patient satisfaction for otolaryngology residents: a pilot study. 
  • Role of treatment alliance in the clinical management of bipolar disorder: stronger alliances prospectively predict fewer manic symptoms. 
  • Roles for Health Care Professionals in Addressing Patient-Held Misinformation Beyond Fact Correction. 
  • STUDENTJAMA. Taking a spiritual history. 
  • Selected annotated bibliography on depression and suicide. 
  • Self-reported financial burden and satisfaction with care among patients with cancer. 
  • Sexual health. Medical training must acknowledge sexuality. 
  • Sexual orientation and sexual health care needs: a comparison of women beneficiaries in outpatient military health care settings. 
  • Sexuality talk during adolescent health maintenance visits. 
  • Shared decision-making in end-stage renal disease: a protocol for a multi-center study of a communication intervention to improve end-of-life care for dialysis patients. 
  • Sharing the care of mechanical circulatory support: collaborative efforts of patients/caregivers, shared-care sites, and left ventricular assist device implanting centers. 
  • Should doctors ever lie on behalf of patients? 
  • Should doctors prescribe religion?. Interview by Anita J Slomski. 
  • Some words that matter. 
  • Special Considerations Related to Race, Sex, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status in the Preoperative Evaluation: Part 1: Race, History of Incarceration, and Health Literacy. 
  • Specialist Physicians' Attitudes and Practice Patterns Regarding Disclosure of Pre-referral Medical Errors. 
  • Specialist and primary care physicians' views on barriers to adequate preparation of patients for renal replacement therapy: a qualitative study. 
  • Spiritual beliefs and barriers among managed care practitioners. 
  • Spirituality across the lifespan. 
  • Spirituality and caring for older family members. 
  • Spirituality and depression: a case study. 
  • Spirituality and health in the curricula of medical schools in Brazil. 
  • Spirituality and lifestyle: what clinicians need to know. 
  • Spirituality and religion in psychiatry practice: parameters and implications. 
  • Strangers or friends? A proposal for a new spirituality-in-medicine ethic. 
  • Study protocol: Couples Partnering for Lipid Enhancing Strategies (CouPLES) - a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Studying communication in oncologist-patient encounters: the SCOPE Trial. 
  • Substituted judgment in principle and practice: a national physician survey. 
  • Suicide in the elderly: case discussion. 
  • Supporting patient care beyond the clinical encounter: three informatics innovations from partners health care. 
  • Supporting self-management for patients with complex medical needs: recommendations of a working group. 
  • Surgical malpractice: myths and realities. 
  • Survey of patients and physicians on shared decision-making in treatment selection in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. 
  • Survivorship care planning and its influence on long-term patient-reported outcomes among colorectal and lung cancer survivors: the CanCORS disease-free survivor follow-up study. 
  • Survivorship: childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Suspended judgment. Clinical trials of informed consent. 
  • Symptom communication in breast cancer: relationships of holding back and self-efficacy for communication to symptoms and adjustment. 
  • Talking with patients about alternative and complementary medicine. 
  • Task Force III: Assessment of psychological status in patients with ischemic heart disease. 
  • Teaching Physicians Motivational Interviewing for Discussing Weight With Overweight Adolescents. 
  • Teaching an integrated approach to health care: lessons from five schools. 
  • Teaching at the Bedside. Maximal Impact in Minimal Time. 
  • Teaching the medical interview: an intervention study. 
  • Techniques for communicating with your elderly patient. 
  • Teen CHAT: Development and utilization of a web-based intervention to improve physician communication with adolescents about healthy weight. 
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cost-of-Care Conversations. 
  • The Act of Hospice: Understanding a Family's Perception of Palliative Care--When You're Family. 
  • The Common Sense of Considering the Senses in Patient Communication. 
  • The DECISIONS study: a nationwide survey of United States adults regarding 9 common medical decisions. 
  • The Image Gently Think A-Head Campaign: Keep Calm and Image Gently. 
  • The Impact of Cost Conversations on the Patient-Physician Relationship. 
  • The Impact of a Mandatory Immersion Curriculum in Integrative Medicine for Graduating Medical Students. 
  • The Influence of Patient-Provider Language Concordance in Cancer Care: Results of the Hispanic Outcomes by Language Approach (HOLA) Randomized Trial. 
  • The Medical Interview Satisfaction Scale: development of a scale to measure patient perceptions of physician behavior. 
  • The Oncology Geriatric Education Retreat: commentary and conclusions. 
  • The Senior Mentor Program at Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • The association of physicians' religious characteristics with their attitudes and self-reported behaviors regarding religion and spirituality in the clinical encounter. 
  • The black box of out-of-pocket cost communication. A path toward illumination. 
  • The breakthrough. 
  • The changing face of medicine: health care on the Internet. 
  • The content of one doctor's practice. The patient as the focus of the practice of medicine. 
  • The delivery of immunizations and other preventive services in private practices. 
  • The dilemma of the wounded healer. 
  • The effect of hospital/physician integration on hospital choice. 
  • The evolution of advocacy and orthopaedic surgery. 
  • The glaucoma research foundation patient survey: patient understanding of glaucoma and its treatment. 
  • The impact of country and culture on end-of-life care for injured patients: results from an international survey. 
  • The impact of physician weight discussion on weight loss in US adults. 
  • The implications of out-of-pocket cost of cancer treatment in the USA: a critical appraisal of the literature. 
  • The influence of physician communication style on overweight patients' perceptions of length of encounter and physician being rushed. 
  • The knowledge and perceptions of medical personnel relating to outcome after cardiac arrest. 
  • The limited influence of neurosurgeons' behavior on inpatient satisfaction: a retrospective multihospital analysis. 
  • The message isn't as mean as we may think. 
  • The practice orientations of physicians and patients: the effect of doctor-patient congruence on satisfaction. 
  • The privilege of self-regulation: the role of appropriate use criteria. 
  • The proactive sexual health history. 
  • The profit motive in medicine. 
  • The relationship of patient satisfaction with care and clinical outcomes. 
  • The resident leaves the clinic: the effects of changing physicians on appointment-keeping behavior. 
  • The right to privacy and the duty to protect. 
  • The role of decision analysis in informed consent: choosing between intuition and systematicity. 
  • The role of patient-provider sexual health communication in understanding the uptake of HIV prevention services among Black men who have sex with men. 
  • The role of physicians' recommendations in medical treatment decisions. 
  • The spiritual history in outpatient practice: attitudes and practices of health professionals in the Adventist Health System. 
  • The spiritual history. 
  • The strangest of all encounters: racial and ethnic discrimination in US health care. 
  • The use of standardized patients for mock oral board exams in neurology: a pilot study. 
  • The utility of cost discussions between patients with cancer and oncologists. 
  • The working alliance and Clinician-assisted Emotional Disclosure for rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Through the looking glass: risk perception. 
  • Towards Prevention of Breast Cancer: What Are the Clinical Challenges? 
  • Translating concern into action: HIV care providers' views on counseling patients about HIV prevention in the clinical setting. 
  • Treatment Availability Influences Physicians' Portrayal of Robotic Surgery During Clinical Appointments. 
  • Treatment boundaries in the case management relationship: a clinical case and discussion. 
  • Trust in Managed Care Organizations 
  • Trust in insurers and access to physicians: associated enrollee behaviors and changes over time. 
  • Turning Objective Structured Clinical Examinations into Reality. 
  • US Physicians Overwhelmingly Endorse Hospice as the Better Option for Most Patients at the End of Life. 
  • US primary care physicians' opinions about conscientious refusal: a national vignette experiment. 
  • Understanding of an aggregate probability statement by patients who are offered participation in Phase I clinical trials. 
  • Understanding racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer-related physical well-being: the role of patient-provider interactions. 
  • Use of a standardized patient satisfaction questionnaire to assess the quality of care provided by ophthalmology residents. 
  • Use of and reactions to a tailored CD-ROM designed to enhance oncologist-patient communication: the SCOPE trial intervention. 
  • Use of email in a family practice setting: opportunities and challenges in patient- and physician-initiated communication. 
  • Use of hypnosis with children. 
  • Use of the 5 As for Teen Alcohol Use. 
  • Using a Non-Fit Message Helps to De-Intensify Negative Reactions to Tough Advice. 
  • Using health communication best practices to develop a web-based provider-patient communication aid: the CONNECT study. 
  • Using social media to create a professional network between physician-trainees and the American Society of Nephrology. 
  • Using the PRACTICE mnemonic to apply cultural competency to genetics in medical education and patient care. 
  • Utilizing Trigger Films to Enhance Communication Skills of Home Care Clinicians. 
  • Validation of the Subjective Numeracy Scale: effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitations. 
  • Variation in Patient-Reported Decision-Making Roles in the Last Year of Life among Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Longitudinal Study. 
  • Variation in physician recommendations, knowledge and perceived roles regarding provision of end-of-life care. 
  • Verbal response mode profiles of patients and physicians in medical screening interviews 
  • Views of older adults on patient participation in medication-related decision making. 
  • Walk-in clinics in Ontario. An atmosphere of tension. 
  • What Should Physicians and Chaplains Do When a Patient Believes God Wants Him to Suffer? 
  • What Strategies Do Physicians and Patients Discuss to Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs? Analysis of Cost-Saving Strategies in 1,755 Outpatient Clinic Visits. 
  • What do medical students learn when they follow patients from hospital to community? A longitudinal qualitative study. 
  • What is blood and what is not? Caring for the Jehovah's Witness patient undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • What physicians should know about spirituality and chronic pain. 
  • What we don't talk about when we don't talk about sex: results of a national survey of U.S. obstetrician/gynecologists. 
  • When do older adults turn to the internet for health information? Findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. 
  • When do patients and their physicians agree on diabetes treatment goals and strategies, and what difference does it make? 
  • When patients choose faith over medicine: physician perspectives on religiously related conflict in the medical encounter. 
  • Who doesn't receive carotid endarterectomy when appropriate? 
  • Why I am neither a communitarian nor a medical ethicist. 
  • Why Patients With Glaucoma Lose Vision: The Patient Perspective. 
  • Why physicians need to be more than automated medical kiosks. 
  • Willingness of Patients to Use Computers for Health Communication and Monitoring Following Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Winners & losers: how medical malpractice disputes are resolved 
  • Withholding versus withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: patient factors and documentation associated with dialysis decisions. 
  • Women's experiences with genomic testing for breast cancer recurrence risk. 
  • Working with the elderly patient's family. 
  • [Prayers for patients with internal and cardiological diseases--an applicable therapeutic method?]. 
  • [Psychosocial factors in coronary heart disease -- scientific evidence and recommendations for clinical practice]. 
  • [Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World. 
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  • Curlin, Farr A, Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine