title: The patient's story: integrating the patient- and physician-centered approaches to interviewing.
abstract: Patients produce biopsychosocial stories that integrate material from the medical and personal aspects of their lives. Capturing the personal aspect of the story requires that a patient-centered approach to clinical interviewing complement the equally important physician-centered approach. Patient-centered interviewing actively involves the patient and ensures that his or her perceptions, needs, and concerns are articulated during the physician-patient interaction. In our article, we define patient-centered interviewing and provide a rationale for using it. We also describe how patient-centered interviewing is done, how it is integrated with the physician-centered approach, and how to understand the product of this complementary approach to clinical interviewing, the patient's biopsychosocial story.
authors.affiliation: Michigan State University, East Lansing.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Hoppe
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations