Verheul, W., Mistiaen, P., Di Blasi, Z., Kok, L., van Dulmen, Bensing, S.J.;

2010

October

Cochrane Library

The effect of varying practitioner communication on patients' health status and treatment outcomes

In Press

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This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows:

To assess the effects of interventions in which healthcare practitioner communication in face-to-face consultations with patients is experimentally varied in comparison to usual care or contrasted active control interventions, on patient health and treatment outcomes.

A secondary aim is to investigate if the intervention effect is modified by intervention type, type of illness, length of follow-up, type of outcome and the way the subjects are exposed to communication in studies (real versus simulated).

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