Physician-Patient Relations

"Physician-Patient Relations" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The interactions between physician and patient.

Descriptor ID	D010817
MeSH Number(s)	F01.829.401.650.675 N05.300.660.625
Concept/Terms	Physician-Patient Relations Physician-Patient Relations Physician-Patient Relation Relation, Physician-Patient Relations, Physician-Patient Physician Patient Relationship Physician Patient Relationships Relationship, Physician Patient Relationships, Physician Patient Physician Patient Relations Physician Patient Relation Relation, Physician Patient Relations, Physician Patient Doctor Patient Relations Doctor Patient Relation Relation, Doctor Patient Relations, Doctor Patient Doctor-Patient Relations Doctor-Patient Relation Relation, Doctor-Patient Relations, Doctor-Patient

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Physician-Patient Relations".

Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01]
Psychology, Social [F01.829]
Interpersonal Relations [F01.829.401]
Professional-Patient Relations [F01.829.401.650]
Physician-Patient Relations [F01.829.401.650.675]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Professional-Patient Relations [N05.300.660]
Physician-Patient Relations [N05.300.660.625]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Physician-Patient Relations" by people in this website by year, and whether "Physician-Patient Relations" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 285 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 22 publications in 2007

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1997	1	1	2
1998	2	1	3
1999	1	0	1
2000	2	3	5
2001	4	2	6
2002	2	5	7
2003	3	1	4
2004	8	5	13
2005	8	1	9
2006	10	7	17
2007	15	7	22
2008	7	8	15
2009	4	3	7
2010	3	5	8
2011	10	4	14
2012	5	5	10
2013	8	8	16
2014	5	5	10
2015	4	11	15
2016	6	14	20
2017	11	6	17
2018	7	11	18
2019	6	4	10
2020	7	5	12
2021	2	2	4
2022	0	2	2
2023	1	2	3
2024	4	7	11
2025	3	0	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Physician-Patient Relations" by people in Profiles.

Strokes N, Lloyd C, Girardin AL, Santana CS, Mangus CW, Mitchell KE, Hughes AR, Nelson BB, Gunn B, Schoenfeld EM. Can shared decision-making interventions increase trust/trustworthiness in the physician-patient encounter? A scoping review. Patient Educ Couns. 2025 Jun; 135:108705.

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D'Addario AE, Fukunaga MI, King AM, Singh S, Mazor KM, Fisher KA. Lung cancer screening: What do physicians say to reluctant patients and what do patients want them to say? Patient Educ Couns. 2025 May; 134:108698.

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Pendergast J, Wormwood JB, Stolzmann K, Rosen AK, Jones KF, Miller CJ, Still M, Bokhour B, Hanlon JT, Simon SR, Linsky AM. Engaging Patients in Discussions About Medication Deprescribing. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Jun; 40(8):1811-1819.

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Tai-Seale M, Cheung M, Vaida F, Ruo B, Walker A, Rosen RL, Hogarth M, Fisher KA, Singh S, Yood RA, Garber L, Saphirak C, Li M, Chan AS, Yu EE, Kallenberg G, Longhurst CA, Millen M, Stults CD, Mazor KM. Patient-Clinician Communication Interventions Across Multiple Primary Care Sites: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Health Forum. 2024 Dec 06; 5(12):e244436.

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White AA, King AM, D'Addario AE, Brigham KB, Bradley JM, Gallagher TH, Mazor KM. Crowdsourced Feedback to Improve Resident Physician Error Disclosure Skills: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 08 01; 7(8):e2425923.

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Kaur A, Gottlieb LM, Ettinger de Cuba S, Byhoff E, Fleegler EW, Cohen AJ, Glasser NJ, Ommerborn MJ, Clark CR, De Marchis EH. Associations Between Patient/Caregiver Trust in Clinicians and Experiences of Healthcare-Based Discrimination. J Am Board Fam Med. 2024 Jul-Aug; 37(4):607-636.

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Fisher KA, Singh S, Stone RT, Nguyen N, Crawford S, Mazor KM. Primary care providers' views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study. Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Oct; 127:108369.

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Tunzi M, Day PG, Satin DJ. It's a spiral staircase, not just two steps: An iterative approach to assessing patient capacity for medical decision-making. Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Oct; 127:108362.

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Mattei LH. The Maternal Crossroad. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jun 20; 390(23):2139-2141.

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Aluce LM, Cooper JJ, Emlet LL, Cohen ER, Ostrowski SJ, Wood GJ, Vermylen JH. Bringing competency-based communication training to scale: A multi-institutional virtual simulation-based mastery learning curriculum for Emergency Medicine residents. Med Teach. 2025 Mar; 47(3):505-512.

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