Patient-physician communication: A descriptive summary of the literature

The Social System

1951 • 9,026 citations

Meta-Analytic Procedures for Social Research.

1994 • 4,403 citations

Meta-analysis in social research

1982 • 3,988 citations

The discourse of medicine : dialectics of medical interviews

1984 • 1,562 citations

Expanding Patient Involvement in Care

1985 • 1,388 citations

Meta-analysis of Correlates of Provider Behavior in Medical Encounters

1988 • 1,082 citations

Gaps in Doctor-Patient Communication

1969 • 1,024 citations

The Effect of Physician Behavior on the Collection of Data

1984 • 953 citations

Gaps in doctor-patient communication. 1. Doctor-patient interaction and patient satisfaction.

1968 • 933 citations

Doctor Patient Communication: A Review

2015 • 928 citations

Doctor-Patient Communication

1972 • 820 citations

GAPS IN DOCTOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATION

1968 • 707 citations

Interaction process analysis.

1950 • 638 citations

Patient Participation in the Patient-Provider Interaction: The Effects of Patient Question Asking on the Quality of Interaction, Satisfaction and Compliance

1977 • 637 citations

The Patient-Centred Clinical Method. 1. A Model for the Doctor-Patient Interaction in Family Medicine

1986 • 524 citations

Information Giving in Medical Care

1985 • 478 citations

Doctors talking to patients

1984 • 474 citations

Expanding Patient Involvement in Care

1985 • 420 citations

Relations Between Physicians?? Behaviors and Analogue Patients?? Satisfaction, Recall, and Impressions

1987 • 385 citations

Consultation skills of young doctors: I--Benefits of feedback training in interviewing as students persist.

1986 • 365 citations

The effects of physician communications skills on patient satisfaction; Recall, and adherence

1984 • 365 citations

Variations in patients' compliance with doctors' advice: an empirical analysis of patterns o communication.

1968 • 327 citations

Communication of Affect between Patient and Physician

1981 • 310 citations

Affective and Instrumental Components in the Physician-Patient Relationship: An Additional Dimension of Interaction Theory

1980 • 287 citations

The Function of the Professional's Affective Behavior in Client Satisfaction: A Revised Approach to Social Interaction Theory

1976 • 270 citations

The communication of information from physician to patient: a method for increasing patient retention and satisfaction.

1977 • 255 citations

Physician behaviors that correlate with patient satisfaction

1982 • 232 citations

Interaction Exchange Structure and Patient Satisfaction with Medical Interviews

1979 • 224 citations

Patient Characteristics That Influence Physician Behavior

1982 • 222 citations

Problems and Prospects for Health Services Research on Provider-Patient Communication

1985 • 209 citations

Gaps in Doctor-Patient Communication: Doctor-Patient Interaction Analysis

1971 • 206 citations

Quantitative Methods for Literature Reviews

1984 • 205 citations

Outcome-Based Doctor-Patient Interaction Analysis

1982 • 193 citations

Assessment of nonverbal communication in the patient-physician interview.

1981 • 177 citations

Anticipatory Guidance in Pediatric Practice

1980 • 169 citations

Human Relations and Hospital Care

1965 • 159 citations

Pediatric Clinicians' Support for Parents Makes a Difference: An Outcome-Based Analysis of Clinician-Parent Interaction

1984 • 158 citations

Physician Stereotypes about Female Health and Illness:

1979 • 155 citations

Outcome-Based Doctor-Patient Interaction Analysis

1982 • 153 citations

Task Versus Socioemotional Behaviors in Physicians

1987 • 153 citations

Physicians' Views on the Level of Medical Information Among Patients

1957 • 148 citations

Physician Communication with Children and Parents

1982 • 147 citations

The Patient-Centred Clinical Method. 2. Definition and Application

1986 • 140 citations

Doctor-patient interaction, patients' health behavior and effects of treatment

1984 • 139 citations

The communication of medical information in general practice consultations as a function of patients' social class

1980 • 137 citations

Human Relations and Hospital Care.

1965 • 128 citations

AN OBJECTIVE COMPARISON OF THE PEDIATRIC INTERVIEWING SKILLS OF FRESHMAN AND SENIOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

1970 • 127 citations

Patient question asking in physician-patient interaction.

1984 • 122 citations

Characteristics of the initial medical interview associated with patient satisfaction and understanding.

1981 • 121 citations

Variation in Patients' Compliance with Doctors' Orders: Medical Practice and Doctor-Patient Interaction

1971 • 116 citations

Systematic Analysis of Clinician-Patient Interactions: A Critique of Recent Approaches With Suggestions for Future Research

1983 • 107 citations

The clinical approach to the patient

1969 • 104 citations

Quantitative study of doctor-patient communication.

1969 • 99 citations

Validating the Content of Pediatric Outpatient Medical Records by Means of Tape-Recording Doctor-Patient Encounters

1975 • 99 citations

Consultation skills of young doctors: II--Most young doctors are bad at giving information.

1986 • 89 citations

Parent Satisfaction With Children??s Medical Care

1986 • 89 citations

Communication Skills of House Officers

1980 • 87 citations

Patient Exposition and Physician Explanation in Initial Medical Interviews and Outcomes of Clinic Visits

1985 • 86 citations

The Clinical Approach to the Patient

1969 • 81 citations

Returning to the doctor: the effect of client characteristics, type of practice, and experiences with care.

1982 • 76 citations

QUANTITATIVE STUDY OP DOCTOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATION

1969 • 71 citations

Improving the efficiency of patients' comprehension monitoring: A way of increasing patients' participation in general practice consultations

1985 • 70 citations

Physician Status Characteristics and Client Satisfaction in Two Types of Medical Practice

1982 • 68 citations

Sources of Assessment of Physician Performance: A Study of Comparative Reliability and Patterns of Intercorrelation

1981 • 68 citations

The informative process in private medical consultations: A preliminary investigation

1978 • 67 citations

A New Approach to the Measurement of Patients' Understanding of What They Are Told in Medical Consultations

1985 • 67 citations

The Patient-Centred Clinical Method. 3. Changes in Residents' Performance Over Two Months of Training

1986 • 65 citations

Client Satisfaction and the Organization of Medical Practice: Why Time Counts

1981 • 63 citations

Interactions Between Oncologists and Patients During Rounds

1983 • 61 citations

Dimensions of patient and physician roles in medical screening interviews

1979 • 59 citations

Doctor-patient communication in general practice consultations

1976 • 58 citations

Teaching medical interviewing

1979 • 56 citations

The Discourse of Medicine: Dialectics of Medical Interviews.

1986 • 56 citations

Informed consent: a crucial step in cancer patient education.

1984 • 55 citations

Returning to the Doctor: The Effect of Client Characteristics, Type of Practice, and Experiences with Care

1982 • 54 citations

Medical Communication Behavior System

1986 • 52 citations

The Doctor and His Patient: A Sociological Interpretation.

1964 • 51 citations

The communication of medical information in general practice consultations as a function of patients' social class

1980 • 49 citations

Verbal response mode profiles of patients and physicians in medical screening interviews

1979 • 46 citations

Consumerism in medicine

1971 • 39 citations

Changes in medical interviewing style after instruction with two closed-circuit television techniques

1970 • 38 citations

An evaluation of the short-term effects of an interpersonal skills course

1984 • 38 citations

Patient satisfaction and the content of general practice consultations.

1983 • 36 citations

Patient knowledge and the content of the consultation in general practice

1977 • 35 citations

Patient preferences and the bedside manner

1982 • 33 citations

Doctor-patient communications in a private family practice.

1976 • 32 citations

Psychosocial problems in chronically ill children

1982 • 31 citations

Content and Emphasis of Well-Child Visits

1977 • 31 citations

Responsiveness to Maternal Concern in Preventive Child Health Visits

1983 • 25 citations

Pediatrician-Parent Communication in a Continuity-of-care Setting

1982 • 24 citations

The content of physician/patient communication in family practice.

1979 • 24 citations

Explanatory models in health-care relationships: A conceptual frame for research on family-based health-care activities in relation to folk and professional forms of clinical care.

1987 • 23 citations

Children as patients: a communications process study in family practice.

1981 • 19 citations

Byrne and Long: A classification for rating the interview style of doctors

1984 • 17 citations

Communication behaviours of undergraduate medical students before and after training

1984 • 12 citations

Performance analysis in pediatric practice

1967 • 12 citations

An Observation Methodology for the Study of Interactive Clinical Problem-Solving Behavior in Primary Care Settings

1980 • 12 citations

Gaps In Doctor-Patient Communication; Implications for Nursing Practice

1969 • 11 citations

Podiatrist-patient interaction during routine podiatry visits

1984 • 5 citations

An Analysis of Physician-Parent Communication in Pediatric Prenatal Interviews

1983 • 2 citations