Patient Education and Counseling

Papers
(The TQCC of Patient Education and Counseling is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams221
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective98
New Associate Editor of Patient Education and Counseling92
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting92
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis92
The role of accountability in adherence programs85
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy84
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review72
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations67
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.63
A nurse-led approach to testing and adapting a telehealth guide for e-empathy in goals of care conversations for Black patients with chronic kidney disease59
Development and national consensus finding on patient-centred high stakes communication skills assessments for the Swiss Federal Licensing Examination in Medicine58
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives54
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years53
Advancing communication skills in intensive care: Caring for relatives of critically ill patients52
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers51
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice48
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature46
Healthcare professionals’ behaviour regarding the implementation of shared decision-making in screening programmes: A systematic review43
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment42
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]41
Involving caregivers in design and assessment of opioid risk and safety communication intervention in children40
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)40
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design39
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students39
“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology38
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review37
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals37
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review37
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches37
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network35
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing35
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic35
Taking pause: Drawing from the history of neurology during COVID-1935
Postpartum Blues34
Perspectives of international experts and the Danish citizens on the ‘relevant knowledge’ that citizens need for making informed choices about participation in cancer screening: Qualitative study33
Applying the health belief model to the rational use of drugs for hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial33
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial33
Psychometric properties of the revised Diabetes Knowledge Test using Rasch analysis33
Warding off a tyranny of reliability and validity32
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis32
Decision aids to facilitate decision making around behavior change in the field of health promotion: A scoping review31
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan31
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease29
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling29
Methods for analyzing actual communication: A shared decision making consultation under multiple methodological lenses28
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis28
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper28
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review28
Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency28
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review27
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness27
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits27
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives27
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial27
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss26
Effect of a physician led education invention on colon cancer screening at underserved clinics in Georgia26
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study25
Comprehension of confidence intervals in audio-visual patient information materials for people with multiple sclerosis (COCO-MS): A web-based randomised controlled, parallel group trial25
Editorial Board25
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care25
Parents’ needs and perceived gaps in communication with healthcare professionals in the neonatal (intensive) care unit: A qualitative interview study25
Editorial Board25
A longitudinal study of third-year medical students’ communication competence, communication anxiety, and attitudes toward patient-centered care25
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care25
Navigating decisional conflict as a family when facing the decision of stem cell transplant for a child or adolescent with sickle cell disease24
Shared decision making reimagined24
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers24
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment24
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease24
What is clinical empathy? Perspectives of community members, university students, cancer patients, and physicians23
“Now I get what’s important” - Shifting philosophies of hospice society staff and trained volunteers involved in peer-facilitated Advance Care Planning workshops for the public23
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users23
Developing performance-based measures of health literacy: A narrative case study and checklist of considerations23
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials23
Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial23
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure23
Breaking bad news: A randomized controlled trial to test a novel interactive course for medical students using blended learning22
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits22
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention22
Editorial Board22
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes22
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru21
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education21
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia21
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study20
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities20
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative20
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators20
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication20
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies20
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.20
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout20
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms20
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching20
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis20
Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes in a sample of Italian women and the role of health professionals’ communication20
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis19
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol19
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD19
Editorial Board19
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study19
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review19
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs19
Identifying and classifying medical jargon through analysis of recorded standardized patient encounters19
Cracking the Deep Freeze19
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke19
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits19
Editorial Board19
Development of a coronavirus social distance attitudes scale18
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations18
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients18
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence18
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments18
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?18
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study18
Use of coping strategies in the management of medication overuse headache18
The effectiveness of a person-centred communication skills training programme for the health care professionals of a large hospital in Denmark17
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?17
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review17
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness17
Development, validation and evaluation of a patient information booklet for rectal cancer survivors with a stoma: A three-step approach17
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic17
Predicting decisional conflict: Anxiety and depression in shared decision making17
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis17
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer17
The impact of patient education on knowledge, attitudes, and cardiac rehabilitation attendance among patients with coronary artery disease17
Using patient-generated health data in clinical practice: How timing influences its function in rheumatology outpatient consultations17
Changes in disease-related knowledge and educational needs of patients with coronary heart disease over a six-month period between hospital discharge and follow-up17
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review17
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review16
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses16
Patient and family engagement strategies for children and adolescents with chronic diseases: A review of systematic reviews16
Communicating personalized risk of diabetes and offering weight reduction program choice: Recruitment, participation, and outcomes16
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography16
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship16
Mobile apps for weight management in children and adolescents; An updated systematic review16
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis16
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses16
Effect of a discordant opinion offered by a second opinion physician on the patient’s decision for management of spinal disc disease16
Development and psychometric testing of the European Heart Failure Self-Care behaviour scale caregiver version (EHFScB-C)16
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies16
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer16
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women15
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing15
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care15
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors15
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension15
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls15
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis15
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review15
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care15
Understanding racial-ethnic differences in patient-centered care (PCC) in oncology through a critical race theory lens: A qualitative comparison of PCC among Black, Hispanic, and White cancer patients15
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status15
Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice15
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives15
Automated rating of patient and physician emotion in primary care visits15
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging15
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project15
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals15
Factors associated with patient activation in a socially deprived population: Evidence from Germany15
The first steps towards professional distance: A sequential analysis of students’ interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in medical interviews15
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis15
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations15
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients14
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial14
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training14
Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages14
Clients’ perspectives on the quality of counseling for prenatal anomaly screening. A comparison between 2011 and 201914
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory14
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website14
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study14
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study14
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions14
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions14
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study14
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service14
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients14
Relationship of patient-centered communication and cancer risk information avoidance: A social cognitive perspective14
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing14
A family doctor contends with the unspoken face of the corona pandemic for the Reflective Practice section13
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists13
Free Spirit13
Current status and implementation strategies of patient education in core outcome set development13
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer13
Myths and misinformation associated with vaccine incompleteness: A survey study13
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives13
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills13
Intensifying approaches to address clinical inertia among cardiovascular disease risk factors: A narrative review13
Medical treatment decision-making in rural cancer patients: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis13
Developing an audio-based communication tool for NICU discharge of Latino families with limited English proficiency13
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal13
Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study13
Long-term effects of a peer-led asthma self-management program on asthma outcomes in adolescent peer leaders13
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China13
Designing a Course on Communication in Healthcare for Undergraduate Medical Students13
Partnering with consumers to co-design a person-centred coding framework for qualitative patient experience data13
Creating a Formal Partnership between EACH and the International Communication Association (ICA)13
A systematic review of the use of unannounced standardized patients (USPs) in clinical settings: A call for more detailed quality and fidelity descriptions and expansion to new areas13
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior13
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how13
Family involvement and diabetes distress across dyads for adults with type 2 diabetes13
“Are you otherwise fit and well?”: Past medical history questions in UK paediatric consultations13
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South13
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials13
Teaching approaches for dialogue in a digital simulation13
Racial differences in patient perception of interactions with providers are associated with health outcomes in type II diabetes12
Conversation starters: Understanding the facilitators and barriers to physician-initiated secure firearm storage conversations12
Critical physician behaviors in the formation of a good physician-patient relationship: Concept mapping the perspective of patients with chronic conditions12
A multi-site prospective controlled pilot evaluation of Cardiac College for Women in the cardiac rehabilitation setting12
Editorial Board12
PACCT: an intervention to increase clinical trial invitations for Black and White men with cancer12
Editorial Board12
Using incorpoRATE to examine clinician willingness to engage in shared decision making: A study of Family Medicine residents12
Communication strategies among Black pastors in South Carolina about the COVID-19 Vaccination12
Understanding Young Persons' experiences through healthcare transition. A qualitative study.12
Developing communication curricula in healthcare education: An evidence-based guide12
Between and within race differences in patient-centeredness and activation in mental health care12
How is complementary medicine discussed in oncology? Observing real-life communication between clinicians and patients with advanced cancer12
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Patients’ and kin’s perspective on healthcare quality compared to Lachman's multidimensional quality model: Focus group interviews12
Personal health planning for patients with COPD: Staff perspectives from VA’s Whole Health system12
(WIP) How Providers Screen and Communicate with Patients about Food Insecurity in the Primary Care Setting12
“Can we have a little humanity here?”: Patient perspectives on the impact of a standardized care process for patients who use opioids for the management of chronic pain12
The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review12
Patient role in SDM models: Re: Berger Z, Galasinski D, Scalia P, Dong K, Blunt HB, Elwyn G, “The Submissive Silence of Others: Examining Definitions of Shared Decision Making” [Patient Educ Couns (2012
The effect of mobile application based genetic counseling on the psychosocial well-being of thalassemia patients and caregivers: A randomized controlled trial12
Validation of pharmaceutical pictograms among older adults with limited English proficiency12
Improving iron folic acid consumption through interpersonal communication: Findings from the Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) project12
O.17.1Communication Aids for the Clinical Child Protection Setting and Sexual Assault Examination12
O.9.2Oncology nurses' perceptions of advance directives for patients with cancer12
Talking about completely different “things” in shared decision making12
Evaluation of natural history communication and shared decision making for self-limiting conditions: Analysis of UK primary care consultations12
How do general practitioners manage patient health literacy differences in cardiovascular disease prevention consultations? An interview study11
The Phone: Communication in the Age of COVID-1911
Advancing medical communication education internationally: tEACH collaborative initiatives11
Family carers’ experiences of managing older relative’s medications: Insights from the MEMORABLE study11
A smartphone-based supportive counseling on health anxiety and acceptance of disability in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus patients: A randomized clinical trial11
Corrigendum to “Antidepressant decision aid for major depressive disorder patients (ADAM): Development and pilot testing” [Patient Education and Counseling 105 7 (2022) 2466–2474]11
Treatment recommendations to parents during pediatric tonsillectomy consultations: A mixed methods analysis of surgeon language11
Structurally collecting patient feedback on trainee skills: A pilot study in Obstetrics and Gynaecology11
How children and adolescents with chronic pain describe their pain experiences: A qualitative systematic review11
Unpacking the relationship between shared decision-making and decisional quality, decision to screen, and screening completion in lung cancer screening11
Encounter decision aids to facilitate shared decision-making with women experiencing heavy menstrual bleeding or symptomatic uterine fibroids: A before-after study11
Improving Veterinary Team Handovers using video reflexive techniques11
The role of disclosure & perceptions about providers in health discussions among gay and bisexual young men11
Assessing the impact of patient-involvement healthcare strategies on patients, providers, and the healthcare system: A systematic review11
Medical students’ expressions of empathy: A qualitative study of verbal interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in a medical interview11
Discriminatory and valuing communication behaviors in cardiology encounters11
Simulation-based childbirth education for Chinese primiparas: A pilot randomized controlled trial11
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