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Beliefs about control in the physician-patient relationship: Effect on communication in medical encounters by Richard L. Street; Edward Krupat; Robert A. Bell; Richard L. Kravitz; Paul Haidet is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objectives: Effective communication is a critical component of quality health care, and to improve it we must understand its dynamics. this investigation examined the extent to which physicians' and patients' preferences for control in their relationship (e.g., shared control vs doctor control) were related to their communications styles and adaptations (i.e., how they responded to the communication of the other participant). ## Design: Stratified case-controlled study. ## Patients/participants: Twenty family medicine and internal medicine physicians and 135 patients. ## Measurements: Based on scores from the patient-practitioner orientation scale, 10 patient-centered physicians (5 male, 5 female) and 10 doctor-centered physicians (5 male, 5 female) each interacted with 5 to 8 patients, roughly half of whom preferred shared control and the other half of whom were oriented toward doctor control. audiotapes of 135 consultations were coded for behaviors indicative of physician partnership building and active patient participation. ## Main results: Patients who preferred shared control were more active participants (i.e., expressed more opinions, concerns, and questions) than were p
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- Author
- Richard L. Street; Edward Krupat; Robert A. Bell; Richard L. Kravitz; Paul Haidet
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0884-8734)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)