Debra Roter

ORCID: 0000-0003-2203-9697
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Research Areas
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Communication in Education and Healthcare
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Counseling Practices and Supervision
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Family Support in Illness

Johns Hopkins University
2016-2025

Johns Hopkins Medicine
2008-2020

University of Chicago
2009-2018

University of California, Los Angeles
2017

Welch Foundation
2017

Yeungnam University
2016

Yale University
2016

National Institutes of Health
1998-2015

Harvard University
2015

Historical Archives
2015

African-American patients who visit physicians of the same race rate their medical visits as more satisfying and participatory than do those see other races. Little research has investigated communication process in race-concordant race-discordant visits.To compare patient-physician examine whether behaviors explain differences patient ratings satisfaction decision making.Cohort study with follow-up using previsit postvisit surveys audiotape analysis.16 urban primary care practices.252...

10.7326/0003-4819-139-11-200312020-00009 article EN Annals of Internal Medicine 2003-12-02

Objectives. We examined the association between patient race/ethnicity and patient–physician communication during medical visits. Methods. used audiotape questionnaire data collected in 1998 2002 to determine whether quality of medical-visit differs among African American versus White patients. analyzed from 458 patients who visited 61 physicians Baltimore, Md–Washington, DC–Northern Virginia metropolitan area. Outcome measures that assessed process, patient-centeredness, emotional tone...

10.2105/ajph.94.12.2084 article EN American Journal of Public Health 2004-12-01

We examined the associations of clinicians' implicit attitudes about race with visit communication and patient ratings care.In a cross-sectional study 40 primary care clinicians 269 patients in urban community-based practices, we measured general bias compliance stereotyping 2 association tests related them to audiotape measures ratings.Among Black patients, was associated more clinician verbal dominance, lower positive affect, poorer interpersonal care; longer visits, slower speech, less...

10.2105/ajph.2011.300558 article EN American Journal of Public Health 2012-03-15

This study reports on the analysis of audiotapes 537 adult, chronic disease patients and their 127 physicians (101 men 26 women) in a variety primary care practice settings to explore differences attributable effects patient's physician's sex process communication during medical visits. Compared male physicians, women conducted longer visits (22.9 vs 20.3 minutes; F(1,515) = 7.9, P < .005), with substantially more talk F(1,518) 19.5, .000. Differences were especially evident history segment...

10.1097/00005650-199111000-00002 article EN Medical Care 1991-11-01

<h3>Background:</h3> Despite high prevalence, emotional distress among primary care patients often goes unrecognized during routine medical encounters. <h3>Objective:</h3> To explore the effect of communication-skills training on process and outcome associated with patients' distress. <h3>Methods:</h3> A randomized, controlled field trial was conducted 69 physicians 648 their patients. Physicians were randomized to a no-training control group or one two courses designed help address The...

10.1001/archinte.1995.00430170071009 article EN Archives of Internal Medicine 1995-09-25

This paper investigates associations between physicians' task-oriented and socioemotional behaviors, on the one hand, analogue patients' satisfaction, recall of information, global impressions. The study is based role-playing subjects' responses to interactions physicians simulated patients. Audiotapes two standardized patient cases presented by trained simulators 43 primary care were rated patients (N = 258), electronically filtered excerpts from encounters for vocal affect 37 independent...

10.1097/00005650-198705000-00007 article EN Medical Care 1987-05-01

INTRODUCTION - Moira Stewart and Debra Roter The Need for a Transformed Clinical Method Ian McWhinney PART ONE: TRANSFORMING THE PHYSICIAN Doctors Learning Communication Skills W Wayne Weston Mack Lipkin Jr Developmental Issues Balint Groups in Training Jacques Frenette Fernand Blondeau Physician Self-Awareness Mark F Longhurst Neglected Insight TWO: APPLYING NEW CLINICAL METHOD Importance of Patient's Beliefs Judith Belle Brown Evaluating the Primary Problem(s) Richard Frankel Howard...

10.7326/0003-4819-113-3-259_4 article EN Annals of Internal Medicine 1990-08-01

<h3>PURPOSE</h3> Mindfulness (ie, purposeful and nonjudgmental attentiveness to one's own experience, thoughts, feelings) is associated with physician well-being. We sought assess whether clinician self-rated mindfulness the quality of patient care. <h3>METHODS</h3> conducted an observational study 45 clinicians (34 physicians, 8 nurse practitioners, 3 assistants) caring for patients infected human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who completed Mindful Attention Awareness Scale 437 HIV-infected...

10.1370/afm.1507 article EN The Annals of Family Medicine 2013-09-01

The authors conducted two studies of routine medical visits, investigating the relation physician gender, patient and age to satisfaction, correlations between communication behaviors satisfaction separately for different combinations gender. Study 1 was based on videotaped visits a hospital-based internal medicine practice (n = 97 visits). 2 audiotaped 11 community practices in United States Canada 524 In both studies, patients examined by younger physicians, especially female reported...

10.1097/00005650-199412000-00005 article EN Medical Care 1994-12-01
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