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- * The evaluation included measuring various aspects such as doctors’ diagnostic accuracy, appropriateness of prescriptions, and overall patient satisfaction, revealing that better communication correlates with improved service quality.
- * Results highlighted the need for standardized communication practices and tailored training programs for healthcare providers to enhance the patient experience in e-consultations.
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Patient-centered communication is widely acknowledged as an essential element of high-quality healthcare. Our study attempted to explore the weaknesses in the actual doctor-patient communication process and the most critical elements in patient-centered communication to improve the service quality of e-consult. We recruited ten standardized patients presenting fixed cases (urticaria and childhood diarrhea) for 321 valid interactions to measure patient-centered communication and e-consult service quality. The scores of patient-centered communication included exploring the patient's disease experience, understanding the patient's social situation, and reaching a consensus between doctors and patients. We measured the quality of e-consult services by the total words of doctor's responses, accurate diagnosis, appropriate prescription, lifestyle modification advice, patient satisfaction, continuance intention, and cost. Ordinary least-squares and logistic regression were performed to investigate the association between patient-centered communication and e-consult service quality. The total mean score of patient-centered communication was 17.67. The mean words of responses and cost were 178.55 words and 39.46 yuan, respectively. 82.87% of doctors diagnosed accurately, with 21.81% prescribing appropriate prescriptions and 81.93% providing lifestyle modification advice. 254 interactions obtained high satisfaction, and 218 had continuance intention after the interactions. Doctors with higher patient-centered communication levels would provide more words of responses. They were more likely to provide accurate diagnoses, appropriate prescriptions, and lifestyle modification advice, resulting in better patient satisfaction, continuance intention, and higher costs. Therefore, it is necessary to standardize and improve the doctor-patient communication process of e-consult and develop training for different doctors.
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