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The Clinical Context and Patient Participation in Post-diagnostic Consultations by Richard L. Street Jr.; Howard S. Gordon is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective: Although patient participation is an important feature of patient-centered health care, few studies have examined how the clinical context affects patient involvement in medical encounters. this investigation examined the way patients communicate with physicians in two diverse post-diagnostic settings, post-angiogram consultations and initial lung cancer visits. ## Methods: From transcripts and audiorecordings of post-angiogram consultations (n=88) and initial lung cancer visits (n=62) within a va hospital in the united states, three measures of patient participation were coded--number of active participation behaviors (questions, acts of assertiveness, and expressions of concern), proportion of patients' utterances in the form of active participation, and conversational involvement (ratio of patient utterances to physician plus patient utterances). mixed linear regression procedures assessed the independent effects of the clinical setting, physicians' facilitative communication (partnership-building and supportive talk), and patients' age, education, and ethnicity on patient participation. ## Results: Not only was their less talk in the post-angiogram consultations c
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- Author
- Richard L. Street Jr.; Howard S. Gordon
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0738-3991)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Health Professions (Health Sciences)