title: Compassionate care: enhancing physician-patient communication and education in dermatology: Part I: Patient-centered communication.
abstract: The motivation for developing patient-centered communication stems from a desire to enhance the quality of patient care, fulfill professional competency requirements, reduce medical errors, and improve health outcomes and patient satisfaction. Patient-centered communication skills can optimize the physician-patient relationship without significantly prolonging office visits. We propose a series of practical and generally effective techniques for verbal and nonverbal communication. We also suggest a targeted approach for specific difficult conversations that may occur frequently in the practice of dermatology.
authors: Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
authors: Tien V
authors: TV
authors: Nguyen
authors: Judith
authors: J
authors: Hong
authors: Neil S
authors: NS
authors: Prose
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003880:Dermatology; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D009819:Office Visits; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000628:therapy