Browsing by Subject "Communication"
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Advancing the communication of genetic risk for cardiometabolic diseases: a critical interpretive synthesis.
(2023-11-13)BACKGROUND: Genetics play an important role in risk for cardiometabolic diseases-including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity. Existing research has explored the clinical utility of genetic risk tools such ... -
Assessing the promise of user involvement in health service development: ethnographic study.
(2008-02-09)OBJECTIVES: To understand how the policy of user involvement is interpreted in health service organisations and to identify factors that influence how user involvement is put into practice. DESIGN: Ethnographic study using ... -
Barriers and Facilitators of Safe Communication in Obstetrics: Results from Qualitative Interviews with Physicians, Midwives and Nurses.
(2021-01-21)Patient safety is an important objective in health care. Preventable adverse events (pAEs) as the counterpart to patient safety are harmful incidents that fell behind health care standards and have led to temporary or ... -
Behavior change training for pregnant women's communication during birth: A randomized controlled trial.
(2023-08)Applying health psychological theories can improve communication interventions to empower pregnant women and ensure safe births. The aim was to test a short digital communication intervention based on the health action ... -
Beyond the 'dyad': a qualitative re-evaluation of the changing clinical consultation.
(2014-09-29)OBJECTIVE: To identify characteristics of consultations that do not conform to the traditionally understood communication 'dyad', in order to highlight implications for medical education and develop a reflective 'toolkit' ... -
Biomimetic behaviors in hydrogel artificial cells through embedded organelles.
(National Academy of Science, 2023-08-29)Artificial cells are biomimetic structures formed from molecular building blocks that replicate biological processes, behaviors, and architectures. Of these building blocks, hydrogels have emerged as ideal, yet underutilized ... -
Chimpanzee play sequences are structured hierarchically as games.
(2022)Social play is ubiquitous in the development of many animal species and involves players adapting actions flexibly to their own previous actions and partner responses. Play differs from other behavioural contexts for which ... -
Communication and patient safety in gynecology and obstetrics - study protocol of an intervention study.
(2019-11-28)BACKGROUND: Patient safety is a key target in public health, health services and medicine. Communication between all parties involved in gynecology and obstetrics (clinical staff/professionals, expectant mothers/patients ... -
Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes.
(2019-12-06)BACKGROUND: Community pharmacies are an easily accessible and cost-effective platform for delivering health care worldwide, and the range of services provided has undergone rapid expansion in recent years. Thus, in addition ... -
Development of an intervention to support the implementation of evidence-based strategies for optimising antibiotic prescribing in general practice.
(2021-09-15)BACKGROUND: Trials show that antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) strategies, including communication skills training, point-of-care C-reactive protein testing (POC-CRPT) and delayed prescriptions, help optimise antibiotic ... -
Effectiveness of Communication Interventions in Obstetrics-A Systematic Review.
(2021-03-05)(1) Background: Obstetric work requires good communication, which can be trained through interventions targeting healthcare providers and pregnant women/patients. This systematic review aims to aggregate the current state ... -
Health care for irregular migrants: pragmatism across Europe: a qualitative study.
(2012-02-16)BACKGROUND: Health services in Europe face the challenge of delivering care to a heterogeneous group of irregular migrants (IM). There is little empirical evidence on how health professionals cope with this challenge. This ... -
How do stroke survivors and their carers use practitioners' advice on secondary prevention medications? Qualitative study of an online forum.
(2017-09-01)Background: Secondary prevention medications reduce risk of stroke recurrence, yet many people do not receive recommended treatment, nor take medications optimally. Objective: Exploring how patients report making use of ... -
How to start a blog.
(2017-06)Blogs that address issues of health and medical education run by clinical and research teams can have a profound impact on how patients access and navigate health information. Regularly updated websites are useful tools ... -
How to value patients with psychosis: An inductive study of psychiatrists’ behaviour in routine consultations.
(2015)Valuing patients underlies good communication in psychiatry and mediates positive outcomes. The aim of this study was to (1) identify and reliably assess valuing and devaluing communicative behaviour of psychiatrists in ...