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Author Leavitt, Jessica, 1970-

Title Improving medical outcomes : the psychology of doctor-patient visits / Jessica Leavitt and Fred Leavitt.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2011]
©2011

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (x, 306 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Doctor-patient communication -- Interpreting medical information -- Decisions overview -- Biases -- Medical diagnosis : the problems -- Reducing diagnostic errors -- Prescription for prescribing -- Expectation effects -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Patient outlook and social connectedness -- Healing environments.
Summary "The ability of doctors to properly diagnose and treat patients is often colored by non-specific factors that can affect outcomes in profound ways. Communication between doctors and patients is key, but often what is left unsaid is just as important, and messages from outside sources such as medical journals, drug companies, and other patients can affect how a doctor treats any one patient at any one time. This book outlines the non-specific factors that come into play when doctors and patients interact, how both doctors and patients can overcome these messages to focus in on the health of the person sitting on the table, and how psychological factors in both the doctor and the patient can affect medical outcomes. Anyone hoping to improve the medical care they give or the medical care they get will find in these pages strategies for improving those results"--Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Physician and patient.
Physician and patient.
Patient participation.
Patient participation.
Medical offices.
Medical offices.
Patients -- Psychology.
Patients -- Psychology.
Physicians -- Psychology.
Physicians -- Psychology.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Office Visits.
Patient Participation.
Patients -- psychology.
Physicians -- psychology.
Treatment Outcome.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Leavitt, Fred.
Other Form: Print version: Leavitt, Jessica, 1970- Improving medical outcomes. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2011 9781442203037 (DLC) 2011013594 (OCoLC)707966851
ISBN 9781442203051 (electronic book)
1442203056 (electronic book)
1283224615
9781283224611
9781442203037
144220303X