Confirmation and disconfirmation in nurse/physician communication
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Applied Communication Research
- Vol. 14 (1) , 1-19
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00909888609360300
Abstract
This research used a confirmation/disconfirmation framework to analyze communication in nurse‐physician dyads in an attempt to better understand the quality of these inter‐professional relationships. Nurses and physicians were found to be primarily confirming (87%) in their interactions. No differences were found in confirmation proportions between nurses and physicians nor between men and womem. The implications of these findings and the limitations of the laboratory setting are discussed.Keywords
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