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Patient - Clinician
Effective Nurse Communication Skills and Strategies
For Patient Satisfaction, Communication is Critical
Doctor Uses Jazz to Tune up Physician Communication
What are the habits of highly humanistic physicians?
Treating the Ailing Doctor-Patient Relationship
The Potential Healing Power Of Talking With Your Doctor
What Doctors Can Learn from Pilots About Communication
What's up, Doc? How comic strips are improving bedside manner
5 Ways New Doctors Fail at Bedside Manner
For Hospital Patients, Feelings Are Facts
Can journalism training strengthen physicians’ bedside manner?
Five Reasons Why Physicians Need to Use Social Media
Patients routinely treated disrespectfully?
Survey Tool Plumbs Depth of Physician-Patient Relationship
Teaching patient-centered care a must for physicians, patients
Doctor's orders: For many people, they're not so easy to follow
When it comes to health, communication is a two-way street
Talking with your older patient: A clinician's handbook
Negative patient-doctor communication could worsen symptoms
Passport programs at hospitals facilitate patient-doctor communication
Patients Made Visible
Why Nice Doctors Are Better Doctors
Better Communication Key to Lowering Health Care Costs, Improving Patient Experience: ASQ Survey
Doctor, patient communication vital to health care
Non-compliance explained…and what healthcare leaders can do about it
Saying No: Is It OK for Patients (and Doctor-Patients) to Refuse Care?
Doctors, patients making decisions together could reduce number of antibiotics prescribed
Healthcare Teams
Professional Communication and Team Collaboration
Patient Experience
Measuring patient-perceived quality of care in US hospitals using Twitter
How Nurse Care Affects Patient Recovery
A friendly introduction can transform a patient's experience
Finding Quality Doctors: How Americans Evaluate Provider Quality in the United States
Medical Schools Putting Focus on the Patient Experience
Improving communication may influence outcomes, patient satisfaction
Prescription for the Angry Patient: Communication
Doctor, Shut Up and Listen
Demanding Respect From Doctors May Save Your Life
Doctors Strive to Do Less Harm by Inattentive Care
Staring Down the Barrel: Patient Narrative
Fancy Flourishes At Hospitals Don't Impress Patients, Study Finds
Why patient-centered education creates successful transitions
Improving Physicians' Communication Skills
What happens when doctors turn into patients?
Pain Matters Documentary
For Patient Satisfaction, Communication is Critical
Empathy and Compassion
Training Physicians for Empathy
Why Compassion Is So Important In Health Care (And What It Looks Like)
Eye contact builds bedside trust: Doctors who make eye contact seem more empathetic to patients
Sustaining Compassion in Health Care
Seeing the Doctors Heart
Advancing Compassionate, Person- and Family-Centered Care through Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Practice
Patients should be able to expect compassion from clinicians
Establishing a strong culture of compassion improves quality of care, bottom line
Should We Train Doctors for Empathy?
How to Improve Doctors' Bedside Manner
Difficult Encounters
Can Mindfulness Help Stop Health Worker Burnout?
Medical Students in New Haven Learn How to Deliver Bad News
Communicating Difficult Messages to Patients
The Importance of Good Communication in Cancer Care
Do Patients and Family Stall End-of Life-Care Talks?
End of Life Care Alters Medical Student Attitudes to Practice
How Doctors Deliver Bad News
Health Literacy
Forsyth Medical Center Lauches 'Ask Me Three' Program
Health Literacy & Communicating About Pain
Using videos to help guide patients through health care