Diagnosis and Style

Topic

Study

Detail

Evaluation

Application

Participating in the decision making process

Auerbach et al 1983

 

 

 

 

Woodward and Wallston 1987

Elderly patients

 

 

Matching Doctor with Patient

Haug and Lavin 1981

1.      

2.      

3.      

 

 

 

Auerbach et al 1983

Stress

 

 

Availability heuristics

 

 

 

 

Representative heuristics

 

 

 

 

Other factors that influence the decision making process

Wallston 1978

Distortion

 

 

 

Korsch et al 1968

Mothers forgetting

 

 

 

Weinman 1981

1)     

2)     

3)     

4)     

 

 

Cultural differences in the manifestation of symptoms

Torkington 1991

Black man with leg pain and convulsions

 

 

Cultural differences in the way health is viewed

Horton 1967

Africa

 

 

Practitioner’s behaviour and style

Byrne and Long 1976

Doctor centred and Patient centred

 

 

Memory

Ley et al 1973

structure

 

 

 

Ley 1988

Errors in patient’s recall

1

2

3

4

5

 

 

Style

DiMatteo et al 1986

Cancellations

 

 

 

Seligman et al 1991

 

 

Harvard’s ‘New Pathway’ program

 

Kolata 1990

Court cases

 

 

Language

Marcos et al 1981

Young children

 

 

 

DiMatteo & DiNicola 1982

Lower-class

 

 

 

McKinlay 1975

Women in a maternity ward

 

 

 

Ley 1989

Dissatisfaction

 

 

 

Boyle 1970

Organ position

 

 

 

Bourhis et al 1989

Medical language usage

 

 

Why many doctors do not improve their interpersonal skills

Taylor 1986

1

2

3

 

 

 

DiMatteo and DiNicola 1982

 

 

Simple advice

 

Thompson et al 1990

 

 

Patient forms

Computer doctors

Robinson and West 1992

Genito-urinary clinic

 

 

McDoctors

Ritzer 1993