A Line of Defence: Using Stories in Healthcare Education
Explores the use of patients' contributing to medical education by telling their stories. Stories must resonate and be authentic to have the desired i…
Document Category: Communication
Communicating with patients: improving health literacy and outcomes
Brief, factual and informative snippets on health literacy.
When Stakes Are High and Stress Soars: Addressing Health Literacy in the Critical Care Environment
Health literacy of your next of kin is important especially when you find yourself in an Intensive Care Unit. This articles purports to look at how Co…
“Respect the way I need to communicate with you”: Healthcare experiences of adults on the autism spectrum.
Identifies many of the difficulties experienced by autistic adults related to communication in health care. Authors recommend further research needed …
Influence of interprofessional communication on discharge decisions in prelicensure healthcare learners
Different groups of learning health professionals (non-nursing) went through a standardized process of determining a patients' readiness for discharge…
Avoiding medication errors through effective communication in healthcare environment
Authors claim to discuss communication errors in health care and how medication errors can be avoided through effective communication. The article pro…
Leveraging media and health communication strategies to overcome the COVID‑19 infodemic
Introduces the "Ïnfodemic" concept and recommends ways to work with information overload. Peer review process perhaps have not been as rigorous as th…
Effective health communication – a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic
Offers insights into how communication around Covid-19 measures taken could be improved.
Communication and Coordination Processes Supporting Integrated Transitional Care: Australian Healthcare Practitioners’ Perspectives
In Australia, the introduction of a model of consumer-directed care uniquely challenges the practice of integrated care transitions for older adults. …
Exploring the incidence of culturally responsive communication in Australian healthcare: the first rapid review on this concept
Increasing diversity in Australia requires healthcare practitioners to consider the cultural, linguistic, religious, sexual and racial/ethnic characte…