Patient-Clinician Communication About Pain: A Conceptual Model and Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Productive patient-clinician communication is an important component of effective pain management, but we know little about how patients and clinicians actually talk about pain in clinical settings and how it might be improved to produce better patient outcomes. The objective of this review was to create a conceptual model of patient-clinician communication about noncancer pain, review and synthesize empirical research in this area, and identify priorities for future research.

Methods

A conceptual model was developed that drew on existing pain and health communication research. CINAHL, EMBASE, and PubMed were searched to find studies reporting empirical data on patient-clinician communication about noncancer pain; results were supplemented with manual searches. Stu

SUBMITTER: Henry SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454797 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature