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Patient education and counseling, 2014
To identify and characterize physicians' statements that contained evidence of clinically rel... more To identify and characterize physicians' statements that contained evidence of clinically relevant decisions in encounters with patients in different hospital settings. Qualitative analysis of 50 videotaped encounters from wards, the emergency room (ER) and outpatient clinics in a department of internal medicine at a Norwegian university hospital. Clinical decisions could be grouped in a temporal order: decisions which had already been made, and were brought into the encounter by the physician (preformed decisions), decisions made in the present (here-and-now decisions), and decisions prescribing future actions given a certain course of events (conditional decisions). Preformed decisions were a hallmark in the ward and conditional decisions a main feature of ER encounters. Clinical decisions related to a patient-physician encounter spanned a time frame exceeding the duration of the encounter. While a distribution of decisions over time and space fosters sharing and dilution of r...
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 21, 2012
BMC pediatrics, 2005
Acute viral bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of hospitalisation during infancy in o... more Acute viral bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of hospitalisation during infancy in our region with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) historically being the major causative agent. Many infants with early-life RSV bronchiolitis have sustained bronchial hyperreactivity for many years after hospitalisation and the reasons for this are probably multifactorial. The principal aim of the present study was to investigate if children hospitalised for any acute viral bronchiolitis during infancy in our region, and not only those due to RSV, had more episodes of subsequent wheezing up to age seven years and reduced lung function at that age compared to children not hospitalised for acute bronchiolitis during infancy. A secondary aim was to compare the hospitalised infants with proven RSV bronchiolitis (RS+) to the hospitalised infants with non-RSV bronchiolitis (RS-) according to the same endpoints. 57 infants hospitalised at least once with acute viral bronchiolitis during two con...
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 20, 2000
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 20, 1999
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 20, 1998
We conducted a survey for the purpose of obtaining information on training, theoretical orientati... more We conducted a survey for the purpose of obtaining information on training, theoretical orientation and practice among various categories of practitioners of acupuncture in Norway. Particular attention was paid to physicians, compared with other groups of practitioners. A questionnaire was sent to 161 persons who had attended Norwegian Medical Acupuncture Seminars (Norske legers akupunkturkurs) and to 274 persons found under "Acupuncture" in the Yellow Pages of the telephone directory. The response rate was 80%, questionnaires being returned by 298 practitioners. A significantly higher percentage of physicians, as opposed to other practitioners, had less than 120 hours of acupuncture training. 30% of the physicians, compared to 60% in other groups, had more than 10 acupuncture consultations a week. Physicians performed only a relatively small number of different acupuncture methods. There was a relatively high number of men among the acupuncturists. Hence, acupuncture seem...
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2011
Background: Doctors' ability to communicate with patients varies. Patient questionnaires are ofte... more Background: Doctors' ability to communicate with patients varies. Patient questionnaires are often used to assess doctors' communication skills. Objective: To investigate whether the Four Habits Patient Questionnaire (4HPQ) can be used to assess the different skill levels of doctors. Design: A cross-sectional study of 497 hospital encounters with 71 doctors. Encounters were videotaped and patients completed three post-visit questionnaires. Setting: A 500-bed general teaching hospital in Norway. Main outcome: The proportion of video-observed between-doctor variance that could be predicted by 4HPQ.
Patient Education and Counseling, 2011
To test the hypothesis that a 20-h communication skills course based on the Four Habits model can... more To test the hypothesis that a 20-h communication skills course based on the Four Habits model can improve doctor-patient communication among hospital employed doctors across specialties. Crossover randomized controlled trial in a 500-bed hospital with interventions at different time points in the two arms. Assessments were video-based and blinded. Intervention consisted of 20 h of communication training, containing alternating plenary with theory/debriefs and practical group sessions with role-plays tailored to each doctor. Of 103 doctors asked to participate, 72 were included, 62 received the intervention, 51 were included in the main analysis, and another six were included in the intention-to-treat analysis. We found an increase in the Four Habits Coding Scheme of 7.5 points (p = 0.01, 95% confidence interval 1.6-13.3), fairly evenly distributed on subgroups. Baseline score (SD) was 60.3 (9.9). Global patient satisfaction did not change, neither did average encounter duration. Utilizing an outpatient-clinic training model developed in the US, we demonstrated that a 20-h course could be generalized across medical and national cultures, indicating improvement of communication skills among hospital doctors. The Four Habits model is suitable for communication-training courses in hospital settings. Doctors across specialties can attend the same course.
Medical Care, 2012
Studies indicate that physicians do not respond adequately to patients&am... more Studies indicate that physicians do not respond adequately to patients' emotional issues. Physician sensitivity to patient affect has not been much explored. To describe specialist physicians' sensitivity to patient affect and satisfaction. Cross-sectional study of physicians' and patients' postvisit questionnaire statements about patient affective states and satisfaction. A representative sample of 71 physicians covering nonpsychiatric clinical specialties in a general teaching hospital were observed during 497 encounters with patients (outpatient, inpatient on rounds, emergency room, maximum 8 encounters per physician). Standardized correlations between physician and patient statements. Physician statements about patient negative affect were moderately correlated with patient self-report of negative affect [r=0.379 (0.301; 0.452)]. Physician statements about patient positive affect and patient satisfaction were weakly correlated with patient self-report of positive affect [r=0.238 (0.153; 0.319)] and satisfaction [r=0.219 (0.134; 0.301)]. Internists [r=0.300 (0.161; 0.428)] were significantly less sensitive to negative affect than surgeons [r=0.500 (0.360; 0.618), P=0.038] and neurologists [r=0.621 (0.432; 0.758), P=0.007]. Physicians previously known by the patient were significantly more sensitive to negative affect than those who were not known [r=0.509 (0.391; 0.611) vs. 0.293 (0.189; 0.390), P=0.006]. We could not find differences in affective sensitivity between male and female physicians. Specialist physicians have moderate ability to identify patient negative affect and poor ability to identify patient positive affect and patient satisfaction.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2009
There is a paucity of research on clinical communication in hospitals. A large Norwegian hospital... more There is a paucity of research on clinical communication in hospitals. A large Norwegian hospital has tried out a course (developed in the USA) in clinical communication. In this substudy, we investigated the association between doctors' self-efficacy and participation in this course. Doctors under 60 years of age, working in clinical somatic departments in Akershus University Hospital, were eligible for inclusion. The participants completed a validated questionnaire before and after the course. Self-efficacy was assessed (on a 10-point scale) through nine important communication skills. 103 doctors (randomly selected) were asked to participate in the study; 62 of them completed the 20-hour course. After completion of the course, the participants were more confident that communication skills could be learnt in this way than they were before it started. Their self-efficacy only improved moderately, on average 0.6 on the 10-point scale, but the change was statistically significant for seven of the nine skills. After completion of the course, self-efficacy had improved for 41 doctors and deteriorated for ten. Nevertheless, the latter were still positive regarding the learning effect of the course. The effects were independent of the doctors' sex, age, position (resident or consultant), self-efficacy before the course, and specialty. Of the skills taught, demonstration of empathy was the one that fewest doctors wanted to practice after the course. A short course in clinical communication skills led to a moderate improvement in the participating doctors' self-efficacy. Whether this change implies improved communication is currently under investigation.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2013
The title of a scientific article is important for several reasons. Does the title of a manuscrip... more The title of a scientific article is important for several reasons. Does the title of a manuscript submitted for publication in a medical journal reflect the quality of the manuscript itself? We prepared criteria for poor, fair and good titles and tested them in pilot studies. All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association during the period 1 September 2009-31 August 2011 as original articles (n = 211) or review articles (n = 110) were recorded. The quality of the titles was scored by two former editors. Primary outcome measures were rejection rates and odds ratio for rejection of manuscripts with a poor title compared to those with a good title. For original articles, the rejection rate for manuscripts with a poor, fair or good title amounted to 88%, 73% and 61% (p = 0.002) respectively, and for review articles 83%, 56% and 38% (p < 0.001). The odds ratio for rejection of manuscripts with a poor title compared to those with a good title was 4.6 (95% CI: 1.7-12.3) for original articles and 8.2 (95% CI: 2.6-26.4) for review articles. In a logistic regression model, the quality of the title explained 14% and 27% of the variance in outcome for original articles and review articles respectively. In this study, a poor manuscript title was significantly associated with manuscript rejection. This indicates that the quality of the title often reflects the quality of the manuscript itself.
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Patient education and counseling, 2014
To identify and characterize physicians' statements that contained evidence of clinically rel... more To identify and characterize physicians' statements that contained evidence of clinically relevant decisions in encounters with patients in different hospital settings. Qualitative analysis of 50 videotaped encounters from wards, the emergency room (ER) and outpatient clinics in a department of internal medicine at a Norwegian university hospital. Clinical decisions could be grouped in a temporal order: decisions which had already been made, and were brought into the encounter by the physician (preformed decisions), decisions made in the present (here-and-now decisions), and decisions prescribing future actions given a certain course of events (conditional decisions). Preformed decisions were a hallmark in the ward and conditional decisions a main feature of ER encounters. Clinical decisions related to a patient-physician encounter spanned a time frame exceeding the duration of the encounter. While a distribution of decisions over time and space fosters sharing and dilution of r...
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 21, 2012
BMC pediatrics, 2005
Acute viral bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of hospitalisation during infancy in o... more Acute viral bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of hospitalisation during infancy in our region with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) historically being the major causative agent. Many infants with early-life RSV bronchiolitis have sustained bronchial hyperreactivity for many years after hospitalisation and the reasons for this are probably multifactorial. The principal aim of the present study was to investigate if children hospitalised for any acute viral bronchiolitis during infancy in our region, and not only those due to RSV, had more episodes of subsequent wheezing up to age seven years and reduced lung function at that age compared to children not hospitalised for acute bronchiolitis during infancy. A secondary aim was to compare the hospitalised infants with proven RSV bronchiolitis (RS+) to the hospitalised infants with non-RSV bronchiolitis (RS-) according to the same endpoints. 57 infants hospitalised at least once with acute viral bronchiolitis during two con...
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 20, 2000
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 20, 1999
Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række, Jan 20, 1998
We conducted a survey for the purpose of obtaining information on training, theoretical orientati... more We conducted a survey for the purpose of obtaining information on training, theoretical orientation and practice among various categories of practitioners of acupuncture in Norway. Particular attention was paid to physicians, compared with other groups of practitioners. A questionnaire was sent to 161 persons who had attended Norwegian Medical Acupuncture Seminars (Norske legers akupunkturkurs) and to 274 persons found under "Acupuncture" in the Yellow Pages of the telephone directory. The response rate was 80%, questionnaires being returned by 298 practitioners. A significantly higher percentage of physicians, as opposed to other practitioners, had less than 120 hours of acupuncture training. 30% of the physicians, compared to 60% in other groups, had more than 10 acupuncture consultations a week. Physicians performed only a relatively small number of different acupuncture methods. There was a relatively high number of men among the acupuncturists. Hence, acupuncture seem...
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2011
Background: Doctors' ability to communicate with patients varies. Patient questionnaires are ofte... more Background: Doctors' ability to communicate with patients varies. Patient questionnaires are often used to assess doctors' communication skills. Objective: To investigate whether the Four Habits Patient Questionnaire (4HPQ) can be used to assess the different skill levels of doctors. Design: A cross-sectional study of 497 hospital encounters with 71 doctors. Encounters were videotaped and patients completed three post-visit questionnaires. Setting: A 500-bed general teaching hospital in Norway. Main outcome: The proportion of video-observed between-doctor variance that could be predicted by 4HPQ.
Patient Education and Counseling, 2011
To test the hypothesis that a 20-h communication skills course based on the Four Habits model can... more To test the hypothesis that a 20-h communication skills course based on the Four Habits model can improve doctor-patient communication among hospital employed doctors across specialties. Crossover randomized controlled trial in a 500-bed hospital with interventions at different time points in the two arms. Assessments were video-based and blinded. Intervention consisted of 20 h of communication training, containing alternating plenary with theory/debriefs and practical group sessions with role-plays tailored to each doctor. Of 103 doctors asked to participate, 72 were included, 62 received the intervention, 51 were included in the main analysis, and another six were included in the intention-to-treat analysis. We found an increase in the Four Habits Coding Scheme of 7.5 points (p = 0.01, 95% confidence interval 1.6-13.3), fairly evenly distributed on subgroups. Baseline score (SD) was 60.3 (9.9). Global patient satisfaction did not change, neither did average encounter duration. Utilizing an outpatient-clinic training model developed in the US, we demonstrated that a 20-h course could be generalized across medical and national cultures, indicating improvement of communication skills among hospital doctors. The Four Habits model is suitable for communication-training courses in hospital settings. Doctors across specialties can attend the same course.
Medical Care, 2012
Studies indicate that physicians do not respond adequately to patients&am... more Studies indicate that physicians do not respond adequately to patients' emotional issues. Physician sensitivity to patient affect has not been much explored. To describe specialist physicians' sensitivity to patient affect and satisfaction. Cross-sectional study of physicians' and patients' postvisit questionnaire statements about patient affective states and satisfaction. A representative sample of 71 physicians covering nonpsychiatric clinical specialties in a general teaching hospital were observed during 497 encounters with patients (outpatient, inpatient on rounds, emergency room, maximum 8 encounters per physician). Standardized correlations between physician and patient statements. Physician statements about patient negative affect were moderately correlated with patient self-report of negative affect [r=0.379 (0.301; 0.452)]. Physician statements about patient positive affect and patient satisfaction were weakly correlated with patient self-report of positive affect [r=0.238 (0.153; 0.319)] and satisfaction [r=0.219 (0.134; 0.301)]. Internists [r=0.300 (0.161; 0.428)] were significantly less sensitive to negative affect than surgeons [r=0.500 (0.360; 0.618), P=0.038] and neurologists [r=0.621 (0.432; 0.758), P=0.007]. Physicians previously known by the patient were significantly more sensitive to negative affect than those who were not known [r=0.509 (0.391; 0.611) vs. 0.293 (0.189; 0.390), P=0.006]. We could not find differences in affective sensitivity between male and female physicians. Specialist physicians have moderate ability to identify patient negative affect and poor ability to identify patient positive affect and patient satisfaction.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2009
There is a paucity of research on clinical communication in hospitals. A large Norwegian hospital... more There is a paucity of research on clinical communication in hospitals. A large Norwegian hospital has tried out a course (developed in the USA) in clinical communication. In this substudy, we investigated the association between doctors' self-efficacy and participation in this course. Doctors under 60 years of age, working in clinical somatic departments in Akershus University Hospital, were eligible for inclusion. The participants completed a validated questionnaire before and after the course. Self-efficacy was assessed (on a 10-point scale) through nine important communication skills. 103 doctors (randomly selected) were asked to participate in the study; 62 of them completed the 20-hour course. After completion of the course, the participants were more confident that communication skills could be learnt in this way than they were before it started. Their self-efficacy only improved moderately, on average 0.6 on the 10-point scale, but the change was statistically significant for seven of the nine skills. After completion of the course, self-efficacy had improved for 41 doctors and deteriorated for ten. Nevertheless, the latter were still positive regarding the learning effect of the course. The effects were independent of the doctors' sex, age, position (resident or consultant), self-efficacy before the course, and specialty. Of the skills taught, demonstration of empathy was the one that fewest doctors wanted to practice after the course. A short course in clinical communication skills led to a moderate improvement in the participating doctors' self-efficacy. Whether this change implies improved communication is currently under investigation.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2013
The title of a scientific article is important for several reasons. Does the title of a manuscrip... more The title of a scientific article is important for several reasons. Does the title of a manuscript submitted for publication in a medical journal reflect the quality of the manuscript itself? We prepared criteria for poor, fair and good titles and tested them in pilot studies. All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association during the period 1 September 2009-31 August 2011 as original articles (n = 211) or review articles (n = 110) were recorded. The quality of the titles was scored by two former editors. Primary outcome measures were rejection rates and odds ratio for rejection of manuscripts with a poor title compared to those with a good title. For original articles, the rejection rate for manuscripts with a poor, fair or good title amounted to 88%, 73% and 61% (p = 0.002) respectively, and for review articles 83%, 56% and 38% (p < 0.001). The odds ratio for rejection of manuscripts with a poor title compared to those with a good title was 4.6 (95% CI: 1.7-12.3) for original articles and 8.2 (95% CI: 2.6-26.4) for review articles. In a logistic regression model, the quality of the title explained 14% and 27% of the variance in outcome for original articles and review articles respectively. In this study, a poor manuscript title was significantly associated with manuscript rejection. This indicates that the quality of the title often reflects the quality of the manuscript itself.
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