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Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare

Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1951. 32.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on shared decision making in healthcare, emphasizing patient-centered care, physician communication, the use of health decision aids, risk comprehension, trust in healthcare, numeracy skills, and the impact of patient participation on healthcare outcomes.

  • Patient-Centered Care
  • Physician Communication
  • Health Decision Aids
  • Medical Consultations
  • Risk Comprehension
  • Trust in Healthcare
  • Numeracy Skills
  • Cancer Communication
  • Patient Participation
  • Healthcare Outcomes
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
8.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
32.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+30%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.8k and 510 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 510 works
  3. 3 Netherlands 286 works
  4. 4 Canada 265 works
  5. 5 China 259 works
  6. 6 Australia 249 works
  7. 7 Germany 240 works
  8. 8 India 116 works
  9. 9 Spain 114 works
  10. 10 Denmark 110 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 45.6%United Kingdom: 12.9%Netherlands: 7.2%Canada: 6.7%6 others listed: 27.6%46%largest
United States1,804 · 45.6%United Kingdom510 · 12.9%Netherlands286 · 7.2%Canada265 · 6.7%6 others listed1,089 · 27.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Harvard University publishes the most Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare research, followed by University of Michigan and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 30 works
  2. 2 University of MichiganUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 26 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 24 works
  5. 5 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 21 works
  7. 7 The University of SydneyAustralia 21 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 20 works
  9. 9 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 19 works
  10. 10 University of WashingtonUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare include Gordon Guyatt and Jasvinder A. Singh.

  1. 1 Gordon Guyatt Canada 6.8k citations
  2. 2 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 4.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare research done?

The largest centres of Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Odense, Maastricht and Nijmegen.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 134 works
  2. 2 New York United States 98 works
  3. 3 Boston United States 89 works
  4. 4 Toronto Canada 64 works
  5. 5 Amsterdam Netherlands 59 works
  6. 6 Melbourne Australia 56 works
  7. 7 Philadelphia United States 53 works
  8. 8 Sydney Australia 52 works
  9. 9 Baltimore United States 49 works
  10. 10 Utrecht Netherlands 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OdenseDK · 28.3 works12×
  2. MaastrichtNL · 22.9 works9.3×
  3. NijmegenNL · 31.3 works8.9×
  4. RotterdamNL · 28.9 works8.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Southern Denmark, Maastricht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 34.26%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Southern Denmark: 22, 32.4%Maastricht University: 19, 30.8%Erasmus University Rotterdam: 13, 45.4%Harvard University: 30, 29.5%The University of Sydney: 21, 34.3%Radboud University Nijmegen: 15, 29.5%University of Amsterdam: 14, 36.8%Stanford University: 17, 28.5%University of California, San Francisco: 23, 24.0%University of Oxford: 11, 51.4%Erasmus University R…University of Southe…Maastricht UniversityHarvard University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 70.632.4%12.3×22 +82.3%
2 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 64.430.8%10.7×19 +17.7%
3 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 60.145.4%8.3×13 +0.3%
4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 51.029.5%4.4×30 +20.2%
5 The University of SydneyAustralia 48.834.3%4.0×21 +37.0%
6 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 48.229.5%6.5×15 +29.3%
7 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 46.736.8%4.9×14 +16.2%
8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 45.928.5%2.6×17 +189.1%
9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 45.424.0%6.7×23 -4.3%
10 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 44.351.4%1.5×11 +31.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 30% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.