When studying the patient perspective on communication, some studies rely on analogue
patients (patients and healthy subjects) who rate videotaped medical consultations while …

OBJECTIVE: Scripted video-vignette studies enable experimental investigation of specific
elements of patient–provider communication, separating cause and effect. However …

Effective communication rests at the core of medicine, especially when patients are
confronted with progressive disease and death. Communication can mitigate the distress of …

Objective The diagnosis of incurable cancer may evoke physiological arousal in patients.
Physiological arousal can negatively impact patients' recall of information provided in the …

Objective: Patients' recall of provided information during bad news consultations is poor.
According to the attentional narrowing hypothesis, the emotional arousal caused by the bad …

Purpose When discussing the transition to palliative care for patients with breast cancer,
oncologists have to find a balance between giving explicit information while not …

Objective To investigate the rationale and consequences associated with a parent's decision
to discuss death with a child with incurable cancer. Study design We present data from a …

Objective Experimental studies have found that clinician-expressed empathy improves
patients' information recall in (advanced) cancer consultations. It remains unclear, however …

Background: Empathy is a cornerstone of effective communication. However, clinicians' and
patients' perceptions of clinician-expressed empathy might differ. The independent …

OBJECTIVE: Scripted consultations provide the opportunity to vary and study the effect of
specific elements of medical communication. These scripted consultations are role-played …