Healthcare providers who need to connect with patients have more competition than ever in grabbing their attention. Consumers are bombarded with calls and emails—particularly in this era of rampant ...

A majority of individuals who are deaf or have hearing loss face significant communication barriers when accessing care through the National Health Service (NHS), with nearly two-thirds of patients ...

Patient-provider communication after surgery is critical for patient safety. The growth of patient-provider communication technologies has created opportunities to study postoperative ...

Eye-tracking systems can support communication with critically ill patients in intensive care units. Intubated, ventilated, unable to speak: due to their condition, many critically ill patients are ...

As the nature of healthcare continues to evolve, patients demand convenience, efficiency, and personalized interactions. A single poor experience, be it long wait times, fragmented communication, or ...

Disbelief. Judgment. Gaslighting. Dismissal. These are among the responses that patients with chronic, complex disorders, including long COVID, have received from many health care providers. These ...

A professor led a study that found that shared decision-making and the quality of the health care provider's history-taking and physical exam were the main drivers of spinal pain patients' ...

Objective: To explore the experiences of patients who wereearly adopters of e-mail communication with their physicians. Methods: Patients' experiences were assessed with an Internetbasedsurvey of 1881 ...

Communication professor Charee Thompson, right, and graduate student Junhyung Han led a study that found that shared decision-making and the quality of the health care provider’s history-taking and ...