How does communication heal? Pathways linking clinician-patient communication to health outcomes.

By Richard L. Street Jr., G. Makoul, Neeraj Arora, Ronald M. Epstein. Patient Education and Counseling, 2009

2,430 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In General Health Professions

1. M. Smith
2. E. Lemay
3. J. McGinnis
4. Catrin Finkenauer
5. H. T. Reis
6. Laura Shay
7. R. Saunders
8. J. Lafata

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Catrin Finkenauer
2. H. T. Reis
3. Laura Shay
4. J. Lafata

Citations in the corpus

• Where Is the Evidence? A Systematic Review of Shared Decision Making and Patient Outcomes (2015, background): “Furthermore, models have been developed that specifically hypothesize the way that SDM and other patient-provider communication may affect health-related patient outcomes.(16,17) Thus, although the aim of SDM has not always been to improve patient health outcomes, it is valuable to systematically ev”
• Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America (2013, background): “Yet researchers are only beginning to understand the chain of causality through which patient-centered care techniques, such as communication, contribute to better health outcomes (Epstein and Street, 2011; Street et al., 2009).”
• Interventions for increasing the use of shared decision making by healthcare professionals. (2018, background): “Regarding the association between SDM and patient outcomes, some authors have shown that communication between healthcare professionals and patients, including SDM, can lead to improved health outcomes in direct but also in indirect ways (Street 2009).”
• The Effects of Race and Racial Concordance on Patient-Physician Communication: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2017, neutral): “Another potential contributor to the lack of consistent measurement may be the scarcity of theoretical frameworks within the communication literature to guide how communication variables relate to outcomes of interest [58].”
• Trust in the health care professional and health outcome: A meta-analysis (2017, background): “Therefore, it could be argued that a possible association between trust and objective outcomes depends on trust-sensitive subjective variables, such as adherence to medication or patient satisfaction with treatment [45, 46].”
• Toward understanding understanding : The importance of feeling understood in relationships (2017, positive): “In health care, patients who feel that providers understand their symptoms and needs are more likely to comply with treatments than patients who feel misunderstood (Street, Makoul, Arora, & Epstein, 2009).”