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Debra L. Roter is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within health professions and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including general health professions, social psychology, clinical psychology, genetics, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's research topics center around patient-provider communication in healthcare, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, counseling practices and supervision, family and disability support research, interpreting and communication in healthcare, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and health literacy and information accessibility.

Debra L. Roter has contributed to a range of recent publications. Some of these include:

  • Loss of patient centeredness in interpreter-mediated primary care visits (2020, Patient Education and Counseling)
  • Exploring Health Literacy and the Correlates of Pap Testing Among African Immigrant Women: Findings from the AfroPap Study (2020, Journal of Cancer Education)
  • Testing a best practices risk result format to communicate genetic risks (2020, Patient Education and Counseling)
  • Exploring the Impact of Language Concordance on Cancer Communication (2022, JCO Oncology Practice)
  • Exploring patient-centered aspects of home care communication: a cross-sectional study (2020, BMC Nursing)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Debra L. Roter include:

  • Chenery Lowe
  • Lori H. Erby
  • Barbara B. Biesecker
  • Galen Joseph
  • Mary Catherine Beach

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Patient Education and Counseling
  • Journal of Genetic Counseling
  • HLRP Health Literacy Research and Practice
  • UNC Libraries
  • JCO Oncology Practice

Debra L. Roter's work integrates interdisciplinary approaches across health professions and psychological sciences, addressing communication challenges and literacy in medical settings, genetic counseling, and supporting vulnerable populations including immigrants and childhood cancer survivors.

Best Publications

  • Physician-Patient Communication: The Relationship With Malpractice Claims Among Primary Care Physicians and Surgeons

    Wendy Levinson;Debra L. Roter;John P. Mullooly;Valerie T. Dull

  • Physician gender effects in medical communication: A meta-analytic review

    Debra L. Roter;Judith A. Hall;Yutaka Aoki

  • Meta-analysis of correlates of provider behavior in medical encounters.

    Judith A. Hall;Debra L. Roter;Nancy R. Katz

  • Patient-Centered Communication, Ratings of Care, and Concordance of Patient and Physician Race

    Lisa A. Cooper;Debra L. Roter;Rachel L. Johnson;Daniel E. Ford

  • Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Patient Compliance a Meta-Analysis

    Debra L. Roter;Judith A. Hall;Rolande Merisca;Beth Nordstrom

  • Communication patterns of primary care physicians.

    Debra L. Roter;Moira Stewart;Samuel M. Putnam;Mack Lipkin

  • National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: adjuvant therapy for breast cancer, November 1-3, 2000.

    Eifel P;Axelson Ja;Costa J;Crowley J

  • Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient-physician communication during medical visits

    Rachel L. Johnson;Debra Roter;Neil R. Powe;Lisa A. Cooper

  • The Roter interaction analysis system (RIAS): utility and flexibility for analysis of medical interactions.

    Debra Roter;Susan Larson

  • Patient Participation in the Patient-Provider Interaction: The Effects of Patient Question Asking on the Quality of Interaction, Satisfaction and Compliance*

    Debra L. Roter

  • Improving Physicians' Interviewing Skills and Reducing Patients' Emotional Distress: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Debra L. Roter;Judith A. Hall;David E. Kern;L. Randol Barker

  • The Associations of Clinicians’ Implicit Attitudes About Race With Medical Visit Communication and Patient Ratings of Interpersonal Care

    Lisa A. Cooper;Debra L. Roter;Kathryn A. Carson;Mary Catherine Beach

  • The relationship of physician medical interview style to patient satisfaction.

    Klea D. Bertakis;Debra Roter;Samuel M. Putnam

  • The enduring and evolving nature of the patient–physician relationship

    Debra Roter

  • Physician gender and patient-centered communication: a critical review of empirical research.

    Debra L. Roter;Judith A. Hall

  • Relations between physicians’ behaviors and analogue patients’ satisfaction, recall, and impressions

    Debra L. Roter;Judith A. Hall;Nancy R. Katz

  • Sex differences in patients' and physicians' communication during primary care medical visits.

    Debra Roter;Mack Lipkin;Audrey Korsgaard

  • The expression of emotion through nonverbal behavior in medical visits. Mechanisms and outcomes.

    Debra L. Roter;Richard M. Frankel;Judith A. Hall;David Sluyter

  • Gender in medical encounters: an analysis of physician and patient communication in a primary care setting.

    Judith A. Hall;Julie T. Irish;Debra L. Roter;Carol M. Ehrlich

  • PHYSICIAN GENDER AND PATIENT-CENTERED COMMUNICATION: A Critical Review of

    Debra L. Roter;Judith A. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith A. Hall
Judith A. Hall Northeastern University
Lisa A. Cooper
Lisa A. Cooper Johns Hopkins University
Mary Catherine Beach
Mary Catherine Beach Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Richard M. Frankel
Richard M. Frankel Washington University in St. Louis
Lawrence S. Wissow
Lawrence S. Wissow University of Washington
Richard D. Moore
Richard D. Moore Johns Hopkins University
Wendy Levinson
Wendy Levinson University of Toronto
Daniel E. Ford
Daniel E. Ford Johns Hopkins University
Edgar R. Miller
Edgar R. Miller Johns Hopkins University
Marianne Schmid Mast
Marianne Schmid Mast University of Lausanne

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