Nearly one-fifth of adult patient encounters in non-psychiatric settings were considered difficult by physicians, a meta-analysis found. The prevalence of difficult encounters was 17% across 10 ...

ALTHOUGH managing difficult or frustrating patients requires experience, clinicians can enhance their professional lives and job satisfaction while also improving patient outcomes by identifying ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At least once a week, Emily L. Weis, MD, MS, says she has a challenging consult or patient interaction in her ...

"Well," I said to the patient after I completed my exam, "I think it's important that we draw some labs to see if we can better figure out your abdominal pain today." "Can I get a really good nurse? I ...

What Do People Affected by Cancer Think About Electronic Health Information Exchange? Results From the 2010 LIVESTRONG Electronic Health Information Exchange Survey and the 2008 Health Information ...

In nonpsychiatric settings, primary care physicians consider 17% of their patients as “difficult,” particularly those who have anxiety or depression, according to research published Jan. 12 in Annals ...

Relationship between methylation status of PTEN and point mutation of the EGFR L2 domain and efficacy of cetuximab in metastatic colorectal cancer. In silico and ex vivo approaches identify a role for ...

The good news about cancer is that there are increasing numbers of people who are surviving after treatment, in some cases due to newer medicines and, in others, due to screening detecting the disease ...

Across its nationwide network, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed a system of Patient Record Flags (PRFs) to identify veterans whose clinical or behavioral profile may carry ...

Physicians viewed 17% of patient encounters as difficult, according to a meta-analysis. Patient characteristics associated with perceived difficulty included personality disorders, depression, anxiety ...