Black Americans’ concerns about medicine and healthcare are rooted in lived experience, collective memory and documented ...

Serious illness communications are crucial elements of care delivery for patients with cancer. High-quality serious illness communications are composed of open, honest discussions between patients, ...

A majority of individuals who are deaf or have hearing loss face significant communication barriers when accessing care through the National Health Service (NHS), with nearly two-thirds of patients ...

Patient-provider communication after surgery is critical for patient safety. The growth of patient-provider communication technologies has created opportunities to study postoperative ...

A professor led a study that found that shared decision-making and the quality of the health care provider's history-taking and physical exam were the main drivers of spinal pain patients' ...

DUBLIN — Researchers in Spain have reported a complex picture of primary care patient safety across the country, with survey results highlighting a critical need for improved communication systems ...

A new study has found that although most patients with osteoporosis would like to receive information regarding their fracture risk, only half of them actually receive it. In addition to revealing the ...

In health care, trust is built not only through clinical excellence, but also through the way patients experience their care.

Objective: To explore the experiences of patients who wereearly adopters of e-mail communication with their physicians. Methods: Patients' experiences were assessed with an Internetbasedsurvey of 1881 ...