Patient-centered communication in cancer care: Promoting healing and reducing suffering

By Ronald M. Epstein, Richard L. Street Jr.. 2007

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making. (2009, neutral): “A conspicuous gap in this respect pertains to the relationship between numeracy and patient experiences with care, an outcome domain that is receiving greater attention with the growing emphasis on patient-centered care and communication (R. M. Epstein & Street, 2007).”
Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis (2014, methodology): “Clinician characteristics, such as age, gender, and training, may influence the provision of patient-centered communication (Epstein and Street, 2007; Porter-O’Grady and Malloch, 2007).”
Towards conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence (2025, positive): “…practices, with recommendations that communication in clinical encoun ters should address six core functions—fostering the relationship, gathering information, providing information, making decisions, responding to emotions and enabling disease-and treatment-related behaviour 19,66,67 .”
Depression and cancer mortality: a meta-analysis (2010, background): “Recognizing the limitations of routine depression screening programs in primary care (Gilbody et al. 2006), the assessment of depression may be construed as a central element in patient-centered cancer care (Epstein & Street, 2007).”
An Integrative Model of Patient-Centeredness – A Systematic Review and Concept Analysis (2014, background): “In recent years, patient-centeredness has gained in importance [1,2], including policy and practice developments to promote patient-centered care on the level of legislation and regulation of health care [3].”
How does communication heal? Pathways linking clinician-patient communication to health outcomes. (2009, background): “continuous health care, and the patient’s perception of feeling respected and cared for [3].”
Where Is the Evidence? A Systematic Review of Shared Decision Making and Patient Outcomes (2015, background): “For example, the National Cancer Institute published a monograph in 2007 that specifically focused on how patient-centered communication may help to promote health and reduce suffering.(12) The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permission: http://www.”