Abstract
Effective patient care requires effective communication with patients. The creation of a “Patientspeak” dictionary is offered as a constructive exercise for facilitating communication between health care professionals and their patients.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 890-893 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Academic Medicine |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| State | Published - 1984 |
Keywords
- Communication
- Human
- Language
- Physician-patient relations
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)
- Education