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Heart failure (HF) is defined clinically as a syndrome in which a patient presents with typical subjective symptoms (e.g. dyspnoea, swelling around the ankles and fatigue) and physical symptoms (e.g. elevated jugular venous pressure, crackles over the lung fields and...

One of the main treatment methods in oncology is radiotherapy. The knowledge of patients treated with radiotherapy about this procedure is still insufficient. This can result in dysfunctional beliefs about radiotherapy and fear of this treatment method....

Communication is inherent in the transfer of information between people. The basic components include: receiver, sender, channel and noise. There are many factors that disrupt and impede the communication process is stress. It is.

Communication is based on the intentional exchange of signs (symbols) undertaken to enhance cooperation or the sharing of meaning between partners. It takes place on many levels - from intrapersonal, to interpersonal (involving a group of people),...

Alzheimer's disease involves the progressive breakdown of brain function in the clinical picture of a dementia syndrome. In addition to marked memory loss, there are impairments in thinking, language function, emotional life and logical reasoning. As the disease progresses, the patient ...

The subject matter of the study is related to the author's interest in doctor-patient relationships, in the description of which he used his experience as an academic doctor and patient. The basis for these considerations is a survey, the fruit of which is a questionnaire study of several doctors -...

This article is devoted to the presentation and analysis of the results of a hospital-based study on interpersonal communication among doctors. The aim of the article is to show the important role of proper communication among medical staff in the process of making...

The aim of this article is to discuss issues related to the linguistic encoding of factual knowledge in German and Polish and its psychological aspects in the communication process between specialist and non-specialist. The article analyses the terms used in...

The purpose of the paper is to present the key assumptions associated with the proposed understanding of the term 'therapeutic communication', to demonstrate the importance of this type of communication used in clinical practice and to identify forms of training particularly...

Communicating information to the patient is one of the doctor's responsibilities. There are no studies in the available literature on this relationship. In this study, the influence of selected demographic and clinical characteristics on doctor-patient communication was shaded. A questionnaire survey was administered to 500 ...

Empathy is among the key interpersonal skills necessary for therapeutic communication and the provision of quality care to patients. Hence, the authors believe it is important that students entering medical disciplines are characterised by ...

Nowadays, communication in health care, understood both as communication between medical staff and patients and communication between medical staff, seems to be an important issue. Diverse regulations, individualised terminology ...

Communication between medical staff and their patients is not easy due to different regulations and complex emotional situations. Therefore, this type of communication depends on choosing the right way to communicate and the choice of words. Teaching healthcare professionals ...

Clinical communication is an art that determines the doctor's professional approach to the patient, increasing the chance of therapeutic success. At the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, second-year students take classes in...

Krzysztof Sobcza , Katarzyna Leoniuk, Leszek Pawłowski, Natalia Spolak The aim of the study was to assess medical communication from the perspective of clinical doctors and their patients. The study included doctors and clinical patients. A proprietary tool prepared...