Las Representaciones de la Comunicación Médico-Paciente en las Revistas de Salud Chilenas

Abstract

Clear patient-physician communication is considered a critical ability to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient satisfaction. Nonetheless, this skill is not regularly addressed in Health Communication Journals, to consider it a relevant topic. The present article aims to explore to what extent health and communication-related topics are covered within Health journals indexed in the SciELO database. Furthermore, this research focuses on the patient-physician communication models recurrently reported in Scielo health articles. Results revealed a poor coverageofcommunicationasaresourcefultopicinHealth-relatedJournalsandthe prevalence of the interactional approach as the main model to address the patient-physician interaction.