..., and left the restaurant without uttering a word. We tried to contact him, but his cell phone was turned off. Han Zao Li can be contacted at: lih@unbc.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Cigarettes Smoking China Doctors Nurses Medical students Personal health...

... valuable in prioritizing tobacco control among Chinese medical students, as they are future medical doctors, and their smoking behaviors will have strong influence on their patients as well as the general public. This variable was assessed based on responses to a question asking the frequencies (1...

...Han Z. Li; Atie van den Brink‐Muinen; Heidi‐Ingrid Maaroos; Heli Tähepõld Purpose This paper aims to investigate doctor‐patient communication in consultations of newly qualified general practitioners (GPs) in a newly reorganised health care system and differences in consultation characteristics...

..., but by showing verbal and nonverbal affect to the patient. Originality/value Focuses on the important role of verbal and nonverbal affect in physicians' communication. Additional to the detailed coding of verbal communication, global affect ratings were made of doctors' dominance, friendliness, concern...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Communication Doctors Patients Patient centredness is an approach increasingly advocated in good medical practice. Despite its popularity, dissimilar definitions are reported in the literature (Mead and Bower, 2000 ; Zandbelt et al., 2005 ; Bensing, 2000...