ja m_hm Patientenreaktionen auf prädiagnostische Mitteilungen

Artikel

This article focuses on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of patients’ responses to different types of doctors’ prediagnostic statements. Prediagnostic statements document the doctors’ process of understanding in the on going interactive event and simultaneously move it to an intersubjective level within the boundaries of communicability, for example, in the case of problematic symptom patterns. Four types of prediagnostic statements will be distinguished: the preliminary, unspecific diagnosis, the establishing of a (causal) link, information about the findings, and diagnoses of exclusion. On the basis of 29 doctor-patient-conversations, 150 patients’ responses to prediagnostic statements are analyzed in their contextual organization. Although many patients’ responses turn out to be affirmatively minimal, there are differences both in the elaborateness and regarding the reference type, depending on the statements’ degree of certainty, the patients’ self-diagnoses as well as on influences of the interaction type’s asymmetrical properties. Both patients and doctors work together on establishing interactive and epistemic territories and pay attention to the maintenance of their self-images and their interaction relationship.

Object Details

• Language: Deutsch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Deutsch ; Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schöffler, Marta ; Spranz-Fogasy, Thomas
• (when): 2012
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Berlin : de Gruyter

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-8764
• Last update: 06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET