Primary care for women. The art of interviewing.
This article focuses on the skills, attitudes, and goals required for effective history-taking during comprehensive health assessment in the primary care setting. The approach presented is characterized as "patient-centered" in that the woman is engaged in the problem-solving process. Specific communication skills are discussed, and attitudes and goals that enable primary care providers to adopt a patient-centered approach to relationship-centered care are included.
Quirk
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University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA.
Casey
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D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods*; D009721:Nurse Midwives; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D016387:Women's Health