ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2021
Approaches to building rapport with patients.
Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Abstract
In this article, I detail my rapport-building trial and error exercise and outline why addressing a patient's occupation at the beginning of a consultation worked during my history taking. Context permitting, addressing occupation can be useful when setting the tone and rhythm of a conversation, helping to focus explanations on the back of a patient's everyday experiences, and allowing a history-taker to address a patient's ideas, concerns and expectations more comfortably. Broaching occupation can also be a useful way to extrapolate information about disease risk factors and baseline understanding from the start. Whatever the rapport-building technique used, self-awareness seems to be a critical skill in this exercise, and an approach used with one patient may not necessarily be useful with another.
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