Patient education and counseling
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Basic research and careful observation of clinical practice have yielded a vast amount of empirical data on communication in health care. This research has been guided by the assumption that good communication will be better understood and easier to teach when its single constituents are identified. This paper points to the limitation of this approach. ⋯ Including perceptions of the lived body (Leib) should improve research in clinical communication and teaching courses.
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To enhance the understanding and effect of physician's difficulties, attitudes and communication styles on the disclosure of the diagnosis of AD in practice. ⋯ There is a need for assisting physicians to cope with their personal difficulties, problems and pitfalls in breaking the news.
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Interpersonal and communication skills have been identified as a core competency that must be demonstrated by physicians. We developed and tested a tool that can be used by patients to assess the interpersonal and communication skills of physicians-in-training and physicians-in-practice. ⋯ Specialty boards, residency programs, medical schools, and practice plans may find the CAT valuable for both collecting information and providing feedback about interpersonal and communication skills.
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
The LBP patient perception scale: a new predictor of LBP episode outcomes among primary care patients.
To describe a new tool designed to capture patients' perception of their low back pain (LBP) episodes-the patient perception scale (PPS) and test its ability to predict episode outcomes. ⋯ The PPS-pt could potentially be used as part of the standard initial patient evaluation of new LBP patients, as a proxy for "yellow flags" (markers of psychosocial risk) where a positive score might be the equivalent to high-risk identification. The apparent advantage of this scale is its brevity and simplicity of administration. The separation, through this scale of pain episodes into simple and complex LBP might be a useful tool for helping direct resources and avoiding chronicity.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Development and evaluation of the "Advanced Heart Failure Clinical Competence Survey": a tool to assess knowledge of heart failure care and self-assessed competence.
We developed a tool to identify self-assessment of skills for advanced HF assessment and management and knowledge of HF care. ⋯ The Advanced Heart Failure Clinical Competence Survey can identify hospice nurses' confidence and knowledge or the need for education to enable patient and family education and counseling regarding self-care, medications, distressing symptoms and approaching the end of life.