Measuring the quality of patient-provider relationships in serious illness: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People affected by serious illness face several threats to their well-being: physical symptoms, psychological distress, disrupted social relations, and spiritual/existential crises. Relationships with clinicians provide a form of structured support that promotes shared decision-making and adaptive stress coping. Measuring relationship quality may improve quality assessment and patient care outcomes. However, researchers and those promoting quality improvement lack clear guidance on measuring this.

Aim

To identify and assess items from valid measures of patient-provider relationship quality in serious illness settings for guiding quality assessment.

Design

Scoping review.

Data sources

We identified peer-reviewed, English-language articles published fr

SUBMITTER: Wassef K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877987 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature