Patient attitudes toward clinicians’ communication of diagnostic uncertainty and its impact on patient trust

Some evidence suggests that clinicians' discomfort with diagnostic uncertainty can lead to communication by clinicians that can be perceived by patients as dismissive of their symptoms. The latter has been documented extensively in prior work. A remedy may be a leveling of clinicians with patie...

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Main Author: Allyson C. Bontempo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-06-01
Series:SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321522001767