Patient attitudes toward clinicians' communication of diagnostic uncertainty and its impact on patient trust

• Auteur principal: Allyson C. Bontempo (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Elsevier, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Some evidence suggests that clinicians' discomfort with diagnostic uncertainty can lead to communication by clinicians that can be perceived by patients as dismissive of their symptoms. The latter has been documented extensively in prior work. A remedy may be a leveling of clinicians with patie...