Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Entertaining accurate treatment expectations while suffering from chronic pain: an exploration of treatment expectations and the relationship with patient- provider communication |
| Authors: |
Bianca Wiering, Dolf de Boer, Maarten Krol, Hilda Wieberneit-Tolman, Diana Delnoij |
| Source: |
BMC Health Services Research, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018) |
| Publisher Information: |
BMC, 2018. |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| Subject Terms: |
Treatment expectations, Treatment goals, Health care provider communication, Shared decision making, Patient reported experience measure, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| More Details: |
Abstract Background Accurate patient expectations are important to optimise treatment success, especially for complex conditions such as chronic pain. Communication may be the key to managing patient expectations. This study aimed to explore whether health care provider communication influences patient expectations and which communication aspects are most important. Methods We conducted secondary analyses on data that had been collected between September and November 2012. 2603 patients suffering from chronic pain were invited to complete a survey. Results Although 69.9% of patients achieved or surpassed their treatment goal, 30.2% of patients were unsatisfied. Even though overall health care provider communication and shared decision making were unrelated to patient expectations, several affective communication aspects were related. These aspects were attentive listening, taking enough time, building patient’s trust in the physician’s competence and giving patients the feeling that the physician is doing all he or she can (p’s |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1472-6963 |
| Relation: |
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-018-3497-8; https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6963 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12913-018-3497-8 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/e5f6a12477b14c89bdf2103f30debe66 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.5f6a12477b14c89bdf2103f30debe66 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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