Publications

Publication details [#52524]

Iedema, Rick A.M., Ros Sorensen, Christine Jorm, John Wakefield and Cherie Ryan. 2009. A New Structure of Attention?: Open Disclosure of Adverse Events to Patients and Their Families. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28 (2) : 139–157.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | communicative style | doctor-patient conversation | emotion | information processing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study suggests that the new structure of attention involved in Open Disclosure doctor/medical staff-patient interactions, may introduce clinicians to an affective-interactive space.