Course: Delivering Effective Messages in the Patient-Clinician Encounter
CME Credits: 1.00
Released: 2024-02-01
Effective communication between patient and clinician is a core function of the medical encounter.1 In a survey of cancer survivors, communication breakdowns most often identified by respondents were failures of information exchange, both in information provided by the clinician (eg, too complex, not enough) and in missing information from the patient or failing to elicit it.2 These failures can be medically significant, affecting adherence to prevention, screening, and treatment; undermining the patient-clinician relationship; increasing anxiety and confusion; exacerbating health disparities; and accepting misleading, incomplete, or false medical information from ill-informed sources.
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