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The impact of patient and physician computer mediated communication skill training on reported communication and patient satisfactionDebra L Roter
Department of Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Patient Educ Couns 88:406-13. 2012..The objective was to evaluate parallel patient and physician computer-mediated communication skill training on participants' report of skill use and patient satisfaction...
A cluster randomized trial of standard quality improvement versus patient-centered interventions to enhance depression care for African Americans in the primary care setting: study protocol NCT00243425Lisa A Cooper
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Implement Sci 5:18. 2010..TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00243425...
Effects of obstetrician gender on communication and patient satisfactionD L Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21209, USA
Obstet Gynecol 93:635-41. 1999..To describe patient-obstetrician communication during the first prenatal visit and its relationship to physician gender and patient satisfaction...- The Genetic Counseling Video Project (GCVP): models of practiceD Roter
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 142:209-20. 2006..Both the teaching and counseling models seem to be represented in routine practice and predict variation in client satisfaction, affective demeanor, and nonverbal effectiveness... - Assessing oral literacy demand in genetic counseling dialogue: preliminary test of a conceptual frameworkDebra L Roter
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Baltimore, MD, USA
Soc Sci Med 65:1442-57. 2007..These consequences are important for all patients but may be even more so for patients with restricted literacy... - Physician gender and patient-centered communication: a critical review of empirical researchDebra L Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 25:497-519. 2004..Limited studies exist outside of primary care, and gender-related practice patterns might differ in some subspecialties from those evident in primary care... - Use of an innovative video feedback technique to enhance communication skills trainingDebra L Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 750, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Educ 38:145-57. 2004..Despite growing interest in medical communication by certification bodies, significant methodological and logistic challenges are evident in experiential methods of instruction... - Interactive and evaluative correlates of dialogue sequence: a simulation study applying the RIAS to turn taking structuresDebra L Roter
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
Patient Educ Couns 71:26-33. 2008..This study explores novel characterizations of turn taking structure and its interaction and evaluative correlates... - Can e-mail messages between patients and physicians be patient-centered?Debra L Roter
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Health Commun 23:80-6. 2008..E-mail has the potential to support the doctor-patient relationship by providing a medium through which patients can express worries and concerns and physicians can be patient-centered in response... - Observations on methodological and measurement challenges in the assessment of communication during medical exchangesDebra L Roter
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Patient Educ Couns 50:17-21. 2003..This essay explores methodological and design challenges related to broadening the study of medical communication through more creative and thoughtful study designs... - Oral literacy demand of prenatal genetic counseling dialogue: Predictors of learningDebra L Roter
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Suite 750, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Patient Educ Couns 75:392-7. 2009..To assess the relationship between the oral literacy demand of genetic counseling sessions and the ability of low literate subjects to learn genetics-related information... - Oral literacy demand of health care communication: challenges and solutionsDebra L Roter
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Nurs Outlook 59:79-84. 2011.... - Physician gender effects in medical communication: a meta-analytic reviewDebra L Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
JAMA 288:756-64. 2002..However, studies in this area are generally based on small samples, with conflicting results... - The Roter interaction analysis system (RIAS): utility and flexibility for analysis of medical interactionsDebra Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Patient Educ Couns 46:243-51. 2002.... - Slicing it thin: new methods for brief sampling analysis using RIAS-coded medical dialogueDebra L Roter
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Baltimore, MD, USA
Patient Educ Couns 82:410-9. 2011..To explore the relationship between one-minute slices and full-session interaction and the predictive validity of the slices to ratings of affect and rapport... - Current perspectives on patient education in the USD L Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Patient Educ Couns 44:79-86. 2001..By using diabetes education as an exemplar, innovations in patient activation and empowerment are explored and future directions and challenges to the field are considered... - Experts practice what they preach: A descriptive study of best and normative practices in end-of-life discussionsD L Roter
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:3477-85. 2000..However, observational studies suggest that these discussions often fail to meet their stated goals... - The enduring and evolving nature of the patient-physician relationshipD Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Patient Educ Couns 39:5-15. 2000..The importance of medical communication is further explored in a summary of studies that establish its association to outcomes and in an overview of future challenges to the field... - The expression of emotion through nonverbal behavior in medical visits. Mechanisms and outcomesDebra L Roter
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:S28-34. 2006.... - Prenatal genetic testing: content of discussions between obstetric providers and pregnant womenB A Bernhardt
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obstet Gynecol 91:648-55. 1998..To document the content and accuracy of discussions about prenatal genetic testing between obstetric providers and pregnant women... - Are physicians' attitudes of respect accurately perceived by patients and associated with more positive communication behaviors?Mary Catherine Beach
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Patient Educ Couns 62:347-54. 2006..characteristics are associated with greater physician-reported respect? Do patients accurately perceive levels of physician respect? Are there specific communication behaviors associated with physician-reported respect for patients?.. - Patient-centered communication, ratings of care, and concordance of patient and physician raceLisa A Cooper
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2223, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:907-15. 2003..Little research has investigated the communication process in race-concordant and race-discordant medical visits... - Patient-provider communication during the emergency department care of children with asthma. The National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MDL S Wissow
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 36:1439-50. 1998.... - Patient-physician communication in the primary care visits of African Americans and whites with depressionBri K Ghods
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:600-6. 2008..Little research investigates the role of patient-physician communication in understanding racial disparities in depression treatment... - Optimizing patient and family involvement in geriatric home careJennifer L Wolff
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Healthc Qual 31:24-33. 2009..We summarize what has been learned from these efforts, with attention to feasibility and potential applicability to geriatric home care... - Hidden in plain sight: medical visit companions as a resource for vulnerable older adultsJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 692, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1409-15. 2008..Sicker patients are less satisfied with the quality of health care they receive than their healthier counterparts... - Client communication behaviors with health care providers in IndonesiaY M Kim
Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, Suite 310, 111 Market Place, Baltimore, MD 21202 4024, USA
Patient Educ Couns 45:59-68. 2001..The results suggest that a combination of provider training and client education on key communication skills could increase client participation in health care consultations... - Communication patterns of primary care physicians in the United States and the NetherlandsJozien M Bensing
NIVEL, Netherlands Institute of Primary Health Care JMB, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Gen Intern Med 18:335-42. 2003..While international comparisons of medical practice have noted differences in length of visit, few studies have addressed the dynamics of visit exchange... - Do patients talk differently to male and female physicians? A meta-analytic reviewJudith A Hall
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Patient Educ Couns 48:217-24. 2002..Partnership statements were made significantly more often to female than male physicians in general medical visits but not in obstetrical-gynecological visits... - Patients' perceptions of visit companions' helpfulness during Japanese geriatric medical visitsHirono Ishikawa
Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2 11 1 Kaga, Itabashi, Tokyo 173 8605, Japan
Patient Educ Couns 61:80-6. 2006.... - Caring and dominance affect participants' perceptions and behaviors during a virtual medical visitMarianne Schmid Mast
Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
J Gen Intern Med 23:523-7. 2008..Physician communication style affects patients' perceptions and behaviors. Two aspects of physician communication style, caring and dominance, are often related in that a high caring physician is usually not dominant and vice versa... - Use of the roter interaction analysis system to analyze veterinarian-client-patient communication in companion animal practiceJane R Shaw
Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
J Am Vet Med Assoc 225:222-9. 2004.... - Disentangling physician sex and physician communication style: their effects on patient satisfaction in a virtual medical visitMarianne Schmid Mast
University of Neuchatel, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Rue de la Maladiere 23, CH 2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland
Patient Educ Couns 68:16-22. 2007..By using the virtual medical visit paradigm, we were able to disentangle the two variables and study their separate and/or joint effects on patient satisfaction... - Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction?B Mitchell Peck
College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:1080-7. 2004..Patient-centered care requires clinicians to recognize and act on patients' expectations. However, relatively little is known about the specific expectations patients bring to the primary care visit... - Veterinarian-client-patient communication patterns used during clinical appointments in companion animal practiceJane R Shaw
Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
J Am Vet Med Assoc 228:714-21. 2006..Communication pattern was associated with duration of visit, type of appointment, and relationship-centeredness. Recognition of these communication patterns has implications for veterinary training and client and patient outcomes... - Physician-elderly patient-companion communication and roles of companions in Japanese geriatric encountersHirono Ishikawa
Department of Health Sociology, School of Health Sciences and Nursing, The University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Soc Sci Med 60:2307-20. 2005..Further investigation is needed to explore the communication dynamics in triads and dyads, and its relation to patient outcomes... - Chest pain: communication of symptoms and history in a London emergency departmentSteven A Farmer
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 100 Centrex, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Patient Educ Couns 63:138-44. 2006..To describe patient-provider interactions for patients in an emergency department with possible acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and to generate hypotheses about how communication might contribute to sociocultural disparities in cardiac care... - Patient contribution to the medical dialogue and perceived patient-centeredness. An observational study in Japanese geriatric consultationsHirono Ishikawa
Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
J Gen Intern Med 20:906-10. 2005..Relatively few studies have directly addressed the interaction dynamics and consequences of a companion's presence in the medical visit, and their findings have been contradictory... - Liking in the physician--patient relationshipJudith A Hall
Department of Psychology, 125 NI, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Patient Educ Couns 48:69-77. 2002..Patients also reported liking female physicians more than male physicians. A number of these results remained significant even after controlling for the patient's overall satisfaction with the medical visit...
Research Grants
- Understanding Social Contributions to Disparities in Depression Care: US and UKDebra Roter; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Amelioration of Literacy Deficits in Prenatal CareDebra Roter; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Genetic Counseling Processes and Analogue Client OutcomeDebra Roter; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- Understanding Social Contributions to Disparities in Depression Care: US and UKDebra L Roter; Fiscal Year: 2010....