'But Basically You're Feeling Well, Are You?': Tag Questions in Medical Consultations

This study focusing on physician-patient interactions aimed to find out whetherphysicians’ gender and experience influence Persian doctor-patient interactions. Sopower strategies in physician-patient interactions were extracted and categorized toexplore the relationship between physicians’ gender and experience and power strategies.Fieldwork was conducted in clinics and hospitals of Rafsanjan city in Iran. One hundredphysician-patient consultations were audiotaped and transcribed during 2011-2012.Woods’ (2006) view was used to examine four strategies of power and knowledge ontheir talk. The findings pointed out the importance of investigating discourse of medicinein order to improve medical consultations, especially physician-patient interactions.Our study confirmed some previous assertions that physician-patient interactionswere asymmetrical. Physicians controlled and dominated the medical consultations byquestioning, interruptions, directive statements and tag questions. The analysis of the datarevealed that all power strategies were applied in Iranian physician-patient interactions.The results of Chi-Square tests indicated that there was a significant relationship betweenpower strategies and physicians’ experience and gender. It was concluded that the femaleand inexperienced physicians tended to control consultations by questioning, interruption,directives and tag questions more than the male and experienced physicians.

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Medical Consultations Within Child Protective Services Offices

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e516542013-303 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Vincent Palusci ◽

Melissa Nieman

Keyword(s):

Child Protective Services ◽

Protective Services ◽

Medical Consultations

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Medical Consultation Experience Questionnaire: Assessing perceived alliance and experienced confusion during medical consultations.

Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1037/pas0000594 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (11) ◽

pp. 1499-1511 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Keith Sanford ◽

Alannah Shelby Rivers ◽

Tara L. Braun ◽

Kelly P. Schultz ◽

Edward P. Buchanan

Keyword(s):

Medical Consultation ◽

Medical Consultations ◽

Experience Questionnaire

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Linguistics Features of Three British Female Beauty Youtubers

Vivid Journal of Language and Literature ◽

10.25077/vj.7.1.22-34.2018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Rahma Aulia Indra ◽

Rina Marnita ◽

Ayumi Ayumi

Keyword(s):

Specific Function ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Color Terms ◽

Female Beauty ◽

Tag Questions

This article concerns with the characteristics of the language of three British female Youtubers. It is aimed in particular to find out women's linguistic features in their language based on Lakoff's theory (1975) and the functions of each features according to Holme's theory (2013). The result of the study reveals seven women's linguistic features in the youtubers' language. They are (1) lexical hedges or fillers, (2) tag questions, (3) „empty‟ adjectives, (4) precise color terms, (5) intensifiers, (6) „superpolite‟ forms, and (7) emphatic stress. Among these features, the intensifiers. appears as the dominant one. The study also shows that each feature has specific function.

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The doctor is Silent. Observation on Episodes without Vocal Receipt During Medical Consultations

Réseaux ◽

10.3406/reso.1990.3549 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 55-76

Author(s):

Paul Ten Have

Keyword(s):

Medical Consultations

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Observer Ratings of Shared Decision Making Do Not Match Patient Reports: An Observational Study in 5 Family Medicine Practices

Medical Decision Making ◽

10.1177/0272989x20977885 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 51-59

Author(s):

Gisèle Diendéré ◽

Imen Farhat ◽

Holly Witteman ◽

Ruth Ndjaboue

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Family Medicine ◽

Risk Communication ◽

Shared Decision Making ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Clinical Encounter ◽

Values Clarification ◽

Shared Decision ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical Consultations

Background Measuring shared decision making (SDM) in clinical practice is important to improve the quality of health care. Measurement can be done by trained observers and by people participating in the clinical encounter, namely, patients. This study aimed to describe the correlations between patients’ and observers’ ratings of SDM using 2 validated and 2 nonvalidated SDM measures in clinical consultations. Methods In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 238 complete dyads of health professionals and patients in 5 university-affiliated family medicine clinics in Canada. Participants completed self-administered questionnaires before and after audio-recorded medical consultations. Observers rated the occurrence of SDM during medical consultations using both the validated OPTION-5 (the 5-item “observing patient involvement” score) and binary questions on risk communication and values clarification (RCVC-observer). Patients rated SDM using both the 9-item Shared Decision-Making Questionnaire (SDM-Q9) and binary questions on risk communication and values clarification (RCVC-patient). Results Agreement was low between observers’ and patients’ ratings of SDM using validated OPTION-5 and SDM-Q9, respectively (ρ = 0.07; P = 0.38). Observers’ ratings using RCVC-observer were correlated to patients’ ratings using either SDM-Q9 ( rpb = −0.16; P = 0.01) or RCVC-patients ( rpb = 0.24; P = 0.03). Observers’ OPTION-5 scores and patients’ ratings using RCVC-questions were moderately correlated ( rφ = 0.33; P = 0.04). Conclusion There was moderate to no alignment between observers’ and patients’ ratings of SDM using both validated and nonvalidated measures. This lack of strong correlation emphasizes that observer and patient perspectives are not interchangeable. When assessing the presence, absence, or extent of SDM, it is important to clearly state whose perspectives are reflected.

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A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals

Language Resources and Evaluation ◽

10.1007/s10579-020-09526-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Snaith ◽

Nicholas Conway ◽

Tessa Beinema ◽

Dominic De Franco ◽

Alison Pease ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Upper Body ◽

Language Resources ◽

Close Analysis ◽

Medical Consultations ◽

Multimodal Corpus ◽

Clear Identification ◽

Patient Consultation ◽

Design Construction

AbstractLanguage resources for studying doctor–patient interaction are rare, primarily due to the ethical issues related to recording real medical consultations. Rarer still are resources that involve more than one healthcare professional in consultation with a patient, despite many chronic conditions requiring multiple areas of expertise for effective treatment. In this paper, we present the design, construction and output of the Patient Consultation Corpus, a multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient portrayed by an actor, and at least two healthcare professionals with different areas of expertise. As well as the transcribed text from each consultation, the corpus also contains audio and video where for each consultation: the audio consists of individual tracks for each participant, allowing for clear identification of speakers; the video consists of two framings for each participant—upper-body and face—allowing for close analysis of behaviours and gestures. Having presented the design and construction of the corpus, we then go on to briefly describe how the multi-modal nature of the corpus allows it to be analysed from several different perspectives.

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