Patient-provider health communication
6 important questions on Patient-provider health communication
Interpersonal health communication?
From communication to health outcomes?
- Direct pathway = communication functions > health outcomes
- Indirect pathway = communication functions > proximal outcomes > intermediate outcomes > health outcomes
Examples of proximal outcomes?
- Understanding
- Clinician-patient agreement
- Trust
- Higher grades + faster learning
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- 100% sure, 100% understanding
Examples of intermediate outcomes?
- Access to care
- Compliance
- Social support
Examples of health outcomes?
- Survival
- Cure
- Emotional well-being
Continuum of decisional involvement?
- Paternalistic
- Shared decision-making
- Informed
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