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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

paywalled: Why should I talk about emotion? Communication patterns associated with physician discussion of patient expressions of negative emotion in hospital admission encounters



Why should I talk about emotion? Communication patterns associated with physician discussion of patient expressions of negative emotion in hospital admission encounters

Objective 
To describe hospital-based physicians’ responses to patients’ verbal expressions of negative emotion and identify patterns of further communication associated with different responses.

Practice implications 
Providers should respond to expressions of negative emotion with statements that allow for or explicitly encourage further discussion of emotion.