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The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of a clinician communication coaching intervention versus control on an objective measure of the quality of communication (primary outcome) and patients' perceptions of the quality of patient-centered care (secondary outcome), both overall and within Black and White patients.
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The investigators propose a two-arm cluster randomized controlled design, in which the unit of randomization is the clinician. Up to fifty cardiology clinicians will be randomly assigned to either the coaching intervention or to a control condition. The investigators will recruit up to 50 clinicians to ensure that we have at least 40 clinicians with complete pre- and post-intervention measures. Although the unit of randomization is the clinician, the unit of evaluation is the patient: 10 patients per clinician who get cardiology care from the enrolled clinicians will consent to audio-recording of their encounters and to completing the surveys. Clinicians randomized to the intervention will obtain verbal consent from additional patients to audio-record the encounter for coaching. The intervention will be delivered in the clinic or via video-conference (Skype or Facetime), providing individual coaching and professional feedback on the communication behaviors encounters. The investigators will also measure Press Ganey scores by clinician pre- and post-intervention.
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