Why Doctors Need To Listen To And Understand The Patient’s “Perspectives” – A True Story
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Perhaps the most fundamental principle of “patient-centered care” is for clinicians to understand the patient’s perspective regarding key aspects of a care…
If patient-centered care is supposed to be about “respecting the patient’s perspective” where possible, as well as a measure of high quality…
This week, the 2015 HIMSS Patient Engagement Summit is taking place in sunny, warm Orlando. According to HIMMS, conference attendees will learn…
Readers of Mind the Gap, I apologize for my absence in recent months. As you will see from my latest post, I…
Can you say “reactance”? Don’t feel bad, I wasn’t familiar with the term either until recently. But as you will see, anyone…
A lot of physicians are having problems meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2, particularly the requirement which calls for 5% of patients to…
Patient Nonadherence: A Rational Reaction to Sub-Optimal Physician-Patient Communication
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I have been working on a paper exploring the link between physician-patient communication and medication adherence and the implications for health care…
For many physicians, the term “patient-centered” conjures up fears of longer office visits and patients demanding expensive diagnostic tests and procedures they…
I was the keynote speaker recently at a national Patient Engagement Symposium. I opened my presentation by asking the audience how many…