Physician-patient communication: An integrated multimodal approach for teaching medical English

System ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Franceschi
Author(s):  
Arwa Aseeri ◽  
Abdulmajeed Alswat ◽  
nAbdulelah Alessa ◽  
Abdulrahman ALAql ◽  
Osama Alkhudhairi ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy G. Anderson ◽  
Kathryn Winters ◽  
Robert M. Arnold ◽  
Kathleen A. Puntillo ◽  
Douglas B. White ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zakaria ◽  
Rezaul Karim ◽  
Murshida Rahman ◽  
Feng Cheng ◽  
Junfang Xu

Abstract Background: Physician-patient communication is the primary process by which medical decision-making occurs and health outcome depends. Physician-patient communication differences may partly from the ethnic disparities. To examine this problem, this study aims to explore whether physician-patient communication differs by ethnic in primary care medical consultations. Methods: The study was conducted among the Bengali and ethnic minority patients (N = 850) who visited the physician for medical consultations. Data were collected using a structured post-consultation questionnaire. T-test was conducted to compare the communication between the Bengali and ethnic minority patients. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to identify the factors associated with favorable communication behavior from the physicians. Results: Bengali patients received more supportive communication behaviors from the Bengali doctors than that of ethnic minority patients including physicians’ cheerful greetings, encouraging patients to express health problems and asking questions, listening carefully, responding to the questions and concerns, explaining the patients about a medical test, medication, and probable side effects, discussing the treatment options, involved the patients in decisions and spending adequate time. Results of linear regression explored that respondents’ education year, internet use, knowledge on the health problem, having a pre-plan about the content of medical consultation, information seeking about the health problem, visiting female doctors, and quiet ambience of the doctor’s room are significantly associated with better PPCB score for the Bengali patients. In contrast, age, being the resident of an urban area, perception of affecting a minor health problem, having a pre-plan about the content of medical consultation, patients’ involvement in physicians’ decision-making about the treatment, and talking time resulted in better physician-patient communication for the ethnic minority patients. Conclusion: This study suggests for reducing the disparity in the socio-economic status of the ethnic minority people through development program and teaching healthcare providers how to use patient-centered communication skills to engage their patients is one solution to improve equity in the delivery of healthcare and make sure patients are receiving high-quality treatment, no matter their race or ethnicity.


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