Stephen G Henry
Biographic Data
| ID | 160503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen G Henry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Henry |
| SIGNATURE | HENRY S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5643-0881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deflecting Before Prescribing
In this study, we examine opioid-related treatment negotiations during primary care visits for chronic pain. We video-recorded 86 visits involving established patients on chronic opioids seeing primary care physicians; participants completed post-visit assessments. We used conversation analysis to identify patient requests (direct and indirect) for better pain control, create a taxonomy of eight "deflection" practices physicians used to respond b…
The Patients Are Ready, but the System Is Not
How do restrictions on opioid prescribing, harm reduction, and treatment coverage policies relate to opioid overdose deaths in the United States in 2013–2020? An application of a new state opioid poli…
Communicative Practices Clinicians Use to Correct Patient Misconceptions in Primary Care Visits
To investigate how clinicians correct patient misconceptions, we analyzed 23 video recordings of primary care visits. Analysis focused on operationalizing, identifying, and characterizing clinician corrections, integrating two inductive approaches: microanalysis of clinical interaction and conversation analysis. According to our definition, patient misconception-clinician correction episodes met three essential criteria: (1) the clinician refuted…
The story vs the storyteller
BACKGROUND: Narrative communication is often more persuasive for promoting health behaviour change than communication using facts and figures; the extent to which narrative persuasiveness is due to patients' identification with the storyteller vs engagement with the story is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relative impacts of patient engagement, age concordance and gender concordance on perceived persuasiveness of video-recorded narrative clip…
A Risk Prediction Model for Long-term Prescription Opioid Use
BACKGROUND: Tools are needed to aid clinicians in estimating their patients' risk of transitioning to long-term opioid use and to inform prescribing decisions. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to develop and validate a model that predicts previously opioid-naive patients' risk of transitioning to long-term use. RESEARCH DESIGN: This was a statewide population-based prognostic study. SUBJECTS: Opioid-naive (no prescriptions in previous 2…
Let’s talk about pain and opioids
In recent years, the opioid crisis in the United States has sparked significant discussion on doctor-patient interactions concerning chronic pain treatments, but little to no attention has been given to investigating the vocal aspects of patient talk. This exploratory sociolinguistic study intends to fill this knowledge gap by employing prosodic discourse analysis to examine context-specific linguistic features used by the interlocutors of two di…
Prescription drug monitoring programs operational characteristics and fatal heroin poisoning
Decision aid use during post‐biopsy consultations for localized prostate cancer
BACKGROUND: Decision Aids (DAs) effectively translate medical evidence for patients but are not routinely used in clinical practice. Little is known about how DAs are used during patient-clinician encounters. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the content and communicative function of high-quality DAs during diagnostic clinic visits for prostate cancer. PARTICIPANTS: 252 men newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer who had received a DA, 45 treatin…
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Objectives. To estimate the effect of California’s prescription drug monitoring program’s (PDMP) registration mandate on use of the PDMP. Methods. We evaluated the effect of California’s mandatory PDMP registration law by fitting time series models on the percentage of clinicians registered for California’s PDMP and the percentage of clinicians who were active PDMP users (users who created ≥ 1 patient prescription reports in a given month) from 2…
Patient–physician communication about early stage prostate cancer
BACKGROUND: We know little about patient-physician communication during visits to discuss diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. OBJECTIVE: To examine the overall visit structure and how patients and physicians transition between communication activities during visits in which patients received new prostate cancer diagnoses. PARTICIPANTS: Forty veterans and 18 urologists at one VA medical centre. METHODS: We coded 40 transcripts to identify …
Let’s talk about pain and opioids
In recent years, the opioid crisis in the United States has sparked significant discussion on doctor-patient interactions concerning chronic pain treatments, but little to no attention has been given to investigating the vocal aspects of patient talk. This exploratory sociolinguistic study intends to fill this knowledge gap by employing prosodic discourse analysis to examine context-specific linguistic features used by the interlocutors of two di…
Patient–physician communication about early stage prostate cancer
BACKGROUND: We know little about patient-physician communication during visits to discuss diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. OBJECTIVE: To examine the overall visit structure and how patients and physicians transition between communication activities during visits in which patients received new prostate cancer diagnoses. PARTICIPANTS: Forty veterans and 18 urologists at one VA medical centre. METHODS: We coded 40 transcripts to identify …
Decision aid use during post‐biopsy consultations for localized prostate cancer
BACKGROUND: Decision Aids (DAs) effectively translate medical evidence for patients but are not routinely used in clinical practice. Little is known about how DAs are used during patient-clinician encounters. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the content and communicative function of high-quality DAs during diagnostic clinic visits for prostate cancer. PARTICIPANTS: 252 men newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer who had received a DA, 45 treatin…
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Objectives. To estimate the effect of California’s prescription drug monitoring program’s (PDMP) registration mandate on use of the PDMP. Methods. We evaluated the effect of California’s mandatory PDMP registration law by fitting time series models on the percentage of clinicians registered for California’s PDMP and the percentage of clinicians who were active PDMP users (users who created ≥ 1 patient prescription reports in a given month) from 2…
Prescription drug monitoring programs operational characteristics and fatal heroin poisoning
Let’s talk about pain and opioids
In recent years, the opioid crisis in the United States has sparked significant discussion on doctor-patient interactions concerning chronic pain treatments, but little to no attention has been given to investigating the vocal aspects of patient talk. This exploratory sociolinguistic study intends to fill this knowledge gap by employing prosodic discourse analysis to examine context-specific linguistic features used by the interlocutors of two di…
The story vs the storyteller
BACKGROUND: Narrative communication is often more persuasive for promoting health behaviour change than communication using facts and figures; the extent to which narrative persuasiveness is due to patients' identification with the storyteller vs engagement with the story is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relative impacts of patient engagement, age concordance and gender concordance on perceived persuasiveness of video-recorded narrative clip…
A Risk Prediction Model for Long-term Prescription Opioid Use
BACKGROUND: Tools are needed to aid clinicians in estimating their patients' risk of transitioning to long-term opioid use and to inform prescribing decisions. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to develop and validate a model that predicts previously opioid-naive patients' risk of transitioning to long-term use. RESEARCH DESIGN: This was a statewide population-based prognostic study. SUBJECTS: Opioid-naive (no prescriptions in previous 2…
Communicative Practices Clinicians Use to Correct Patient Misconceptions in Primary Care Visits
To investigate how clinicians correct patient misconceptions, we analyzed 23 video recordings of primary care visits. Analysis focused on operationalizing, identifying, and characterizing clinician corrections, integrating two inductive approaches: microanalysis of clinical interaction and conversation analysis. According to our definition, patient misconception-clinician correction episodes met three essential criteria: (1) the clinician refuted…
How do restrictions on opioid prescribing, harm reduction, and treatment coverage policies relate to opioid overdose deaths in the United States in 2013–2020? An application of a new state opioid poli…
Deflecting Before Prescribing
In this study, we examine opioid-related treatment negotiations during primary care visits for chronic pain. We video-recorded 86 visits involving established patients on chronic opioids seeing primary care physicians; participants completed post-visit assessments. We used conversation analysis to identify patient requests (direct and indirect) for better pain control, create a taxonomy of eight "deflection" practices physicians used to respond b…
The Patients Are Ready, but the System Is Not
Medicine (8 works) · Opioid (6 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (6 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · MEDLINE (5 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Conversation (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works)