PMID- 10641807
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000207
LR  - 20210916
IS  - 0277-9536 (Print)
IS  - 0277-9536 (Linking)
VI  - 50
IP  - 4
DP  - 2000 Feb
TI  - The Medical Interaction Process System (MIPS): an instrument for analysing 
      interviews of oncologists and patients with cancer.
PG  - 553-66
AB  - The increase in communication skills training for doctors has led to the need for 
      more effective means of evaluation. Analysis of video and audiotaped 
      consultations using systems of interaction analysis can provide the trainee with 
      in-depth feedback about their communication skills. Most interaction process 
      systems were designed for use in primary care and recent research has questioned 
      the applicability of these systems in medical specialties such as oncology. We 
      describe the development of a new instrument, the Medical Interaction Process 
      System (MIPS) for use in teaching communication skills and empirical research in 
      medical encounters, particularly, between doctors and patients with cancer. A 
      comparison of the MIPS and comparable behaviour categories of another widely used 
      system (the Roter Interaction Analysis System) was made to test convergent 
      validity. Pearson correlation coefficients suggested a good level of concurrence 
      between the two systems. Intercoder reliability tests were carried out between 
      two coders at two separate time periods. Both of these indicated good reliability 
      for the majority of categories. The two major advantages of the MIPS over other 
      coding systems are: (1) the system allows for sequential and parallel coding, 
      thus avoiding major coding conflicts and (2) the design of the coding sheet 
      results in a multidimensional view of the consultation without data loss. We 
      believe that the MIPS yields useful information for teaching doctors 
      communication skills and also provides an objective method for evaluating the 
      effectiveness of communication skills courses.
FAU - Ford, S
AU  - Ford S
AD  - Department of Oncology, University College London Medical School, Bland Sutton 
      Institute, UK. s.ford@ethox.ox.ac.uk
FAU - Hall, A
AU  - Hall A
FAU - Ratcliffe, D
AU  - Ratcliffe D
FAU - Fallowfield, L
AU  - Fallowfield L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Sci Med
JT  - Social science & medicine (1982)
JID - 8303205
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Interviews as Topic
MH  - *Medical Oncology
MH  - *Neoplasms
MH  - *Physician-Patient Relations
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2000/01/21 00:00
MHDA- 2000/01/21 00:01
CRDT- 2000/01/21 00:00
PHST- 2000/01/21 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/01/21 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2000/01/21 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0277953699003081 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00308-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Sci Med. 2000 Feb;50(4):553-66. doi: 10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00308-1.