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43
Citations
9374
World Ranking
4360
National Ranking
2084

Overview

Jeffrey D. Robinson is affiliated with Portland State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, with a particular focus on radiology, language, and general health professions. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Language and Linguistics, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
  • Radiology practices and education
  • Radiation Dose and Imaging
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Robinson has published frequently in key venues such as:

  • Journal of the American College of Radiology
  • Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • Academic Pediatrics
  • Emergency Radiology
  • PEDIATRICS

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Robinson include:

  • "Revisiting Preference Organization in Context: A Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Responses to Information Seeking," 2020, Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • "One Type of Polar, Information-Seeking Question and Its Stance of Probability: Implications for the Preference for Agreement," 2020, Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • "Reducing Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care for Respiratory Illness," 2020, PEDIATRICS (authored by Matthew P. Kronman, coauthor relationship)
  • "'Presumptively Initiating Vaccines and Optimizing Talk with Motivational Interviewing' (PIVOT with MI) trial: a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a clinician vaccine communication intervention," 2020, BMJ Open (with Douglas J. Opel)
  • "Modulating action through minimization: Syntax in the service of offering and requesting," 2020, Language in Society (authored by Chase Wesley Raymond, coauthor connection)

Frequent collaborators in Robinson's work include Douglas J. Opel, Heather Spielvogle, Chuan Zhou, Christine I. Spina, and Cathryn Perreira. These coauthors have contributed across various projects, supporting interdisciplinary research efforts.

Best Publications

  • A preference for progressivity in interaction

    Tanya Stivers;Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • Reducing patients' unmet concerns in primary care: the difference one word can make.

    Jeffrey D. Robinson;Marc N. Elliott;Megan Beckett

  • The Architecture of Provider-Parent Vaccine Discussions at Health Supervision Visits

    Douglas J. Opel;Douglas J. Opel;James A. Taylor;Rita Mangione-Smith;Rita Mangione-Smith

  • "How Are You?": Negotiating Phatic Communion.

    Justine Coupland;Nikolas Coupland;Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • An Interactional Structure of Medical Activities During Acute Visits and Its Implications for Patients' Participation

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • Accounting for the visit: giving reasons for seeking medical care

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • Getting Down to Business Talk, Gaze, and Body Orientation During Openings of Doctor‐Patient Consultations

    Jeffrey David Robinson

  • The structure of patients' presenting concerns: physicians' opening questions.

    Jeffrey D Robinson

  • Physicians' opening questions and patients' satisfaction.

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • The influence of provider communication behaviors on parental vaccine acceptance and visit experience

    Douglas J. Opel;Rita Mangione-Smith;Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • An evidence base for patient-centered cancer care: a meta-analysis of studies of observed communication between cancer specialists and their patients.

    Maria K. Venetis;Jeffrey D. Robinson;Katie La Plant Turkiewicz;Mike Allen

  • Frame Negotiation in Doctor-Elderly Patient Consultations:

    Justine Coupland;Jeffrey D. Robinson;Nikolas Coupland

  • Closing medical encounters: two physician practices and their implications for the expression of patients' unstated concerns.

    Jeffrey D Robinson

  • Managing Trouble Responsibility and Relationships During Conversational Repair

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • The Sequential Organization of "Explicit" Apologies in Naturally Occurring English

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • Soliciting Accounts With Why-Interrogatives in Conversation

    Galina B. Bolden;Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • The structure of patients' presenting concerns: the completion relevance of current symptoms.

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • Overall Structural Organization

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • Achieving Activity Transitions in Physician-Patient Encounters From History Taking to Physical Examination

    Jeffrey D. Robinson;Tanya Stivers

  • Accountability in Social Interaction

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

  • Intervening With Conversation Analysis: The Case of Medicine

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Allen
Mike Allen University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Marc N. Elliott
Marc N. Elliott RAND Corporation
Nikolas Coupland
Nikolas Coupland Cardiff University
Tanya Stivers
Tanya Stivers University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Smith
Gary Smith University of Pennsylvania
James Price Dillard
James Price Dillard Pennsylvania State University
Michael S Wilkes
Michael S Wilkes University of California, Davis
M. Robin DiMatteo
M. Robin DiMatteo University of California, Riverside

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