Patient-centered communication is the key to better health outcomes. Communication skills are included as soft and complex abilities, along with professionalism and lifelong learning that health professionals should master. Moreover, communication skills should be sensitive to the cultural background and the context of society. Therefore, communication skills training is essential during health professions education; starting from building rapport, exploration sessions, informed and shared decision making, up to communication in chronic and palliative care.
Interprofessional teamwork and collaboration can be successful with better communication skills among health professionals. To strengthen primary care in the community, primary care physicians and health professionals, as the first contact of care, should master patient-centered communication skills. Challenges and opportunities of delivering patient-centered and cultural sensitive communication to the society is highly important to be shared in this research topic.
There are problems with delivering patient-centered health provider-patient communication around the world. These problems have been highlighted by previous limited publications and can be continued with this research topic:
- Challenges and opportunities of patient-centered communication in health care
- Challenges of communication skills training in the context of culture
- Challenges of patient-centered communication in primary care settings
- Challenges in informed and shared decision making
- Challenges in interprofessional communication
- Other challenges related to patient-centered communication skills training and health care services.
This research topic aims to provide worldwide scientific discussions regarding the topics presented above, which are still limited but highly important for better health care services and outcomes.
The aim is to provide special scientific attention to the challenges of the topic presented that happens in daily health professions education and health care services but limited in scientific publication.
The scope of research to be submitted for this research topic is ranged as discussed above, including challenges related to patient-centered communication skills training and health care services from building rapport, exploration sessions, informed and shared decision making, up to communication in chronic and palliative care.
Patient-centered communication is the key to better health outcomes. Communication skills are included as soft and complex abilities, along with professionalism and lifelong learning that health professionals should master. Moreover, communication skills should be sensitive to the cultural background and the context of society. Therefore, communication skills training is essential during health professions education; starting from building rapport, exploration sessions, informed and shared decision making, up to communication in chronic and palliative care.
Interprofessional teamwork and collaboration can be successful with better communication skills among health professionals. To strengthen primary care in the community, primary care physicians and health professionals, as the first contact of care, should master patient-centered communication skills. Challenges and opportunities of delivering patient-centered and cultural sensitive communication to the society is highly important to be shared in this research topic.
There are problems with delivering patient-centered health provider-patient communication around the world. These problems have been highlighted by previous limited publications and can be continued with this research topic:
- Challenges and opportunities of patient-centered communication in health care
- Challenges of communication skills training in the context of culture
- Challenges of patient-centered communication in primary care settings
- Challenges in informed and shared decision making
- Challenges in interprofessional communication
- Other challenges related to patient-centered communication skills training and health care services.
This research topic aims to provide worldwide scientific discussions regarding the topics presented above, which are still limited but highly important for better health care services and outcomes.
The aim is to provide special scientific attention to the challenges of the topic presented that happens in daily health professions education and health care services but limited in scientific publication.
The scope of research to be submitted for this research topic is ranged as discussed above, including challenges related to patient-centered communication skills training and health care services from building rapport, exploration sessions, informed and shared decision making, up to communication in chronic and palliative care.
