IPCHS

Oct. 7, 2020 Europe Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Creating an enabling environment

Patient autonomy in the consultation: How signalling structure can facilitate patient-centred care

This paper explores how patient autonomy may be supported or undermined in doctor-patient interactions through sharing information about what is to happen in the consultation. Doctors use a variety of verbal signalling behaviours with multiple functions. As well as sharing information, these behaviours regulate patient agency in the consultation.

assessment, patient agency, patient autonomy, patient concerns, patient-centred communication, signalling structure, signposts, speech act theory

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Contents tagged: signposts

Patient autonomy in the consultation: How signalling structure can facilitate patient-centred care