Does doctor-patient communication affect patient satisfaction with hospital care? Results of an analysis with a novel instrumental variable

Social Sciences

• hospital care 100%
• communication behavior 81%
• physician 56%
• rating 47%
• communication 39%
• regression 20%
• general medicine 15%
• comorbidity 13%
• evidence 4%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Patient Satisfaction 70%
• Communication 56%
• Physicians 33%
• Least-Squares Analysis 8%
• Tertiary Healthcare 7%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 6%
• Primary Health Care 5%
• Comorbidity 5%
• Linear Models 5%
• Length of Stay 5%
• Medicine 5%
• Demography 4%