Objectives We draw on a systematic review of research on two‐way communication between
patients and health practitioners about medicines in order to determine the extent to which …

Background Government policy is to encourage self-help among patients. The internet is
increasingly being used for health information. The literature on the role of the internet in the …

Background There is a significant potential for e-health to deliver cost-effective, quality
health care, and spending on e-health systems by governments and healthcare systems is …

Objectives: To identify and describe misunderstandings between patients and doctors
associated with prescribing decisions in general practice. Design: Qualitative study. Setting: 20 …

Seventy six senior academics from 11 countries invite The BMJ’s editors to reconsider their
policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority. They challenge the …

The traditional paternalistic model of medical decision-making, in which doctors make decisions
on behalf of their patients, has increasingly come to be seen as outdated. Moreover, the …

Objective: To investigate patients' agendas before consultation and to assess which aspects
of agendas are voiced in the consultation and the effects of unvoiced agendas on outcomes…

Mishler (The discourse of medicine. The dialectics of medical interviews. Norwood, NJ:
Ablex), applying Habermas's theory of Communicative Action to medical encounters, showed …

Reflexivity is often described as an individual activity. The authors propose that reflexivity
employed as a team activity, through the sharing of reflexive writing (accounts of personal …

Background This study is to identify, summarise and synthesise literature on the causes of
the evidence to practice gap for complex interventions in primary care. Design This study is a …