Physicians' attention to patients' communication cues can improve patient satisfaction with care and perception of physicians' empathy.

Background: The pathway that links good communication skills and better health outcomes is still unclear. However, it is known that the way that physicians and patients communicate with each other has direct consequences on more "proximal outcomes", such as perceptions of physician empathy and patient satisfaction. However, which specific communication skills lead to those patient outcomes is still unknown.

Adherence to a national consensus statement on informed consent: medical students' experience of obtaining informed consent from patients for sensitive examinations.

Aim: To determine whether the guidance from the New Zealand medical programmes' national consensus statement on obtaining informed consent from patients for sensitive examinations are being met, and to explore medical students' experience of obtaining consent.

Method: A self-reported, online, anonymous questionnaire was developed. Data were collected in the period just after graduation from final year medical students at The University of Auckland in 2019.

[Comparison of fetal heart rate patterns in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy].

Purpose: to compare the patterns of fetal heart rate (FHR) in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

Methods: a prospective and comparative study performed between January 2008 and July 2009. The inclusion criteria were: singleton pregnancy, live fetus, pregnant women without clinical or obstetrical complications, no fetal malformation, gestational age between 24 and 27 weeks (2nd trimester - 2T) or between 36 and 40 weeks (3rd trimester - 3T).