Latent Semantic Analysis: A new measure of patient-physician communication

Scott R. Vrana, Dylan T. Vrana, Louis A. Penner, Susan Eggly, Richard B. Slatcher and Nao Hagiwara

Social Science & Medicine, 2018, vol. 198, issue C, 22-26

Abstract: Patient–physician communication plays an essential role in a variety of patient outcomes; however, it is often difficult to operationalize positive patient-physician communication objectively, and the existing evaluation tools are generally time-consuming.

Keywords: Latent Semantic Analysis; Patient-physician communication; Communication; Text analysis; Methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.021

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