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August 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examines the inclusion of sexual history in health care maintenance visits at two urban university outpatient clinics. While an accurate sexual history is an important component to patient health, little is known about whether sexual histories are systematically undertaken in an outpatient setting.
August 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study analyzed 127 research studies spanning 59 years to find a positive correlation between physician communication skills, as well as physician training in communication skills and patient adherence to treatment recommendations.
February 15, 2012 | Story
RWJF Clinical Scholar finds pain-related discussions take up a large percentage of time during primary care visits.
January 1, 2010 | Book
In this chapter, Irene Wielawski, a free-lance journalist and former investigative reporter looks at Hablamos Juntos, examining its conceptual bases, observing the program in action, and offering some thoughts—based in part on the evaluation of the program—on the challenges to language-access programs and possible ways of overcoming them.
September 28, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
A study released earlier this month finds that doctors are increasingly using social media to interact with other doctors, through online physician communities. More than 65 percent of physicians use social media for professional purposes, according ...
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Communication with family members about prognosis and goals of care often occur close to death for patients in the pediatric intensive care unit.
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This framework provides a way for policy-makers and others to “make sense” out of the many national and local efforts to engage consumers in their own health care.
September 1, 2011 | Story
Study by RWJF scholar finds that, for U.S. adults, nonfinancial barriers to health care are more common than financial barriers.
November 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This article focused on the relationship between limited English proficiency among the patient population and physician services. The study sample was 67 individuals, 45 physicians and 22 office managers, who participated in a total of nine computer-assisted telephone focus groups.
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This study explored the distribution of decision aids—an important first step toward patient engagement, but one that cannot be equated with actual use of the aids.