Trial reportPatient education and counseling2011
The impact of patient-centered communication on patients' decision making and evaluations of physicians: a randomized study using video vignettes.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of Physicians' Information Giving on Patient Outcomes: a Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- The validity of using analogue patients in practitioner-patient communication research: systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2012Pooled it
- Linear virtual patients versus student role-plays in teaching patient-centeredness: a mixed-method study.International journal of medical education · 2026Trial
- Weight-related genomic information and provider communication approach: looking through the lens of patient race.Personalized medicine · 2019Trial
- How Experts' Use of Medical Technical Jargon in Different Types of Online Health Forums Affects Perceived Information Credibility: Randomized Experiment With Laypersons.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Trial
- The impact of physicians' communication styles on evaluation of physicians and information processing: A randomized study with simulated video consultations on contraception with an intrauterine device.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2017Trial
- A Team Approach to Patient-Centered Communication in the Emergency Department.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Complementary therapies in early breast cancer: Oncologists' evidence-based decisions in a Southeast European vignette survey.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Article
- Balancing efficiency and misinterpretation: general practitioners' perspectives on communicating diagnostic test results in the digital era.Family practice · 2025Article
- Exploring patient centered communication on health outcomes: Role of trust and online information seeking in Turkish cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Virtual Patient-PCP-Hospitalist Care Transition Meeting Before Hospital Discharge.JAMA network open · 2025Article
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- Patients' Use of Electronic Health Records Facilitates Patient-Centered Communication: Findings From the 2017 Health Information National Trends Survey.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Higher and Middle Management Perspectives on Patient-Centered Care in an Oncology Setting: A Qualitative Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Cultural competence training of dieticians: development and preliminary evaluation.Primary health care research & development · 2024Article
- Time for health change: promoting community-based diabetes screening and prevention with video vignettes and social marketing.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Creating and administering video vignettes for a study examining the communication of diagnostic uncertainty: methodological insights to improve accessibility for researchers and participants.BMC medical research methodology · 2023Article
- Enhancing effective healthcare communication in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Considerations for research, teaching, policy, and practice.PEC innovation · 2023Article
- Recasting the gold standard - part II of II: communicating healthcare options along a continuum of care.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the impact of patient-centered communication (PCC) behaviors on patients' evaluations of physicians and acceptance of clinical recommendations.
methodsWe randomized 248 patients to view video-recorded, standardized vignettes, depicting a cardiologist using a high vs. low degree of PCC while recommending bypass surgery to a patient with angina and 3-vessel coronary artery disease. We compared patients' ratings of the physician and their decision making in response to the physician's recommendation, for high vs. low PCC vignettes.
resultsPatients viewing high PCC vignettes rated the video physician more favorably overall (3.01 vs. 2.12, p<0.001) and as more competent (3.22 vs. 2.66, p<0.001) and trustworthy (2.93 vs. 2.28, p<0.001) than those viewing the low PCC version (0-4 range for all scales). Patients viewing the high PCC version more frequently said they would undergo bypass surgery (96% vs. 74%, p<0.001) if they were the patient in the video.
conclusionPatients expressed greater confidence in physicians who used more PCC behaviors, and greater willingness to accept an evidence-based recommendation. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: PCC may make physicians more effective in the delivery of evidence-based care.
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