What is it about?
The purpose of this study was to compare several different measures of physician–patient communication.
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Why is it important?
Our findings highlight the potential for using observers’ ratings as an alternate measure of communication to more labor intensive frequency measures.
Perspectives
The comparisons of different measures in the paper are important because there is no gold standard for the measurement of communication, and few studies have compared across more than two different methods of measuring similar behaviors.
Dr Howard Gordon
University of Illinois at Chicago
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This page is a summary of: How Physicians, Patients, and Observers Compare on the Use of Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Physician-Patient Communication, Evaluation & the Health Professions, January 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0163278715625737.
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