Obstetricians' Prior Malpractice Experience and Patients' Satisfaction With Care

Influence of personality psychology on outcome of total hip arthroplasty: a cross-sectional study on 69 patients

“…Patient satisfaction is connected with many aspects of clinical practice as of compliance, better surgical results, a reduction in legal controversies and general rating of medical care [14]. In orthopaedic surgery, many studies also have evidenced that patient satisfaction is complex and does not necessarily have a clear link to either existing patient-reported outcomes or outcomes measured by clinicians [14]. First it is important to discriminate between satisfaction related to the outcome of care or with the process of care.…”

Professionalism and academic medicine: the Mayo Clinic program in professionalism

“…Professionalism benefits both physicians and patients as demonstrate by enhanced patient trust, fewer malpractice lawsuits even when errors have occurred, greater career satisfaction, and sense of well being [34,36,37,42]. Communication skills lead to improved information gathering, reduced patient anxiety, and improved health outcomes [30][31][32]45].…”

Association between physicians’ communicative behaviors and judges’ decisions in lawsuits on negligent care

“…In Japan, the number of medical disputes has increased in recent years [1], and it has been suggested that poor physician-patient communicative behaviors constitutes the primary cause of the disputes [2][3][4][5][6]. In particular, specific physician attitudes and conversation behaviors with patients have been identified as leading to medical disputes or to malpractice litigation [4,5].…”

“…In particular, specific physician attitudes and conversation behaviors with patients have been identified as leading to medical disputes or to malpractice litigation [4,5]. With respect to patient-physician interactions in a Japanese medical setting, previous studies imply a generally poor level of patient-physician communication [7][8][9].…”

“…We propose that the quality of a physician's explanatory behaviors is important in preventing medical disputes because physician explanatory behaviors are associated with both medical disputes [2][3][4][5][6] and their predictors (i.e., patient adherence and satisfaction) [15][16][17]. However, information on the nature of physicians' explanatory behaviors is extremely limited.…”