Patient–Provider Communication
Patient–provider communication, interaction between patients and professional and familial caregivers in formal health-care contexts, has significant influences on healthcare outcomes. During health-care, patients interact with numerous health-care professionals (e.g., primary providers, specialists, nurses) and familial providers (e.g., elderly adults’ children, spouses, young children’s parents). Familial providers interact with health-care professionals on behalf of patients (Eggly