OBJECTIVE To ascertain Canadian family physicians’ levels of stress and burnout and the
strategies they use to reduce these problems. DESIGN Census survey. SETTING Kitchener-…

This chapter covers important and well-studied aspects of patient-doctor communication.
First the paper describes the lessons learned from studies about patients' satisfactions or …

Background: This study developed a screening tool for use by family physicians to identify
and assess women patients experiencing emotional and/or physical abuse by their partner …

Background. Few studies have explored the contextual dimensions and subsequent
interactions that contribute to a lack of adherence in the application of guidelines for diabetes …

… Dr Judith Belle Brown noted the similarity of her social work discipline and medicine in
understanding “the person in situation,” taking into consideration human development and context…

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of use of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM)
by breast cancer survivors in Ontario, Canada, and to compare the characteristics of CAM …

Over 30 years ago, Barbara Korsch’s (Korsch, Gozzi, & Francis, 1968) seminal work on
patient satisfaction within the domain of the patient-provider encounter set the agenda for …

OBJECTIVE To examine common themes about implementing and adopting electronic health
record (EHR) systems that emerged from 3 separate studies of the experiences of primary …

The study described in this article explored breast cancer survivors’ perceptions and experiences
as they decided whether to use a variety of complementary/alternative therapies. Six …

The purpose of the health care enterprise is to help patients. The ultimate benchmark to
evaluate the importance of any aspect of health care, including patient-physician communication…