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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Medical Communication"”.
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Multilingual medical communication: Staff with different language repertoires in an intensive care environment
… landscape in terms of patient care and workplace communication. The study employed a qualitative, multi-method design using data collected from questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with registered nurses and managerial staff in an ICU. A systematic three-pronged analytical framework was …
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Exploring and describing the responsibilities and functions of emergency medical communication centers in South Africa: a modified delphi study
… of South Africans are reliant on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for access to Emergency Care, a need compounded by the current quadruple burden of disease. Efficient allocation of EMS resources ensures optimal use in time-critical emergencies. Development and improvement of Emergency …
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Does speech prosody matter in health communication? Evidence from native and non-native English speaking medical students in a simulated clinical interaction
… services and have contributed towards shaping communication skills training as a core part of the UK undergraduate medical curriculum. NHS complaints statistics involving perceived staff attitudes have remained high, despite extensive communication skills training. Furthermore, foreign doctors …
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Discordant definitions of medical terminology and their impact on communication between English-speaking doctors and Xhosa-speaking parents at a paediatric hospital
… area of applied linguistics, in the field of medical communication. The central problem which I investigate is the imperfect communication that takes place between largely English-speaking doctors and largely Xhosa-speaking parents. Some of the problems result from lack of bilingualism or …
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The lived experiences of family planning for women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
… decisions are complex and influenced by both medical and psychosocial factors. Existing research lacks a comprehensive understanding of these lived experiences. This thesis addresses that gap through three mixed-method empirical studies. Study 1 used qualitative interviews (n = 23) to explore …
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Empathetic Consultation Skills in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Qualitative Approach.
… of treatment, to the interaction and communication that occurs in consultations. The requisite for care in medical practice has been widely documented, and the role of empathy is acknowledged and recognised in this process; however, it is often difficult to express in a communicative …
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Improving Diabetic Outcomes with Caring Communication: Identifying Communication Patterning for the Human Diabetic
… study was to identify the influence of caring communication for people living with diabetes (PLD) and the relationship to diabetic outcomes. Caring communication has not been studied for improving diabetic outcomes. Randomized control trials (RCTs) direct care, however people do not do what …
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Constructing the Medical Voice: How doctors-in-training engage with communication challenges-a grounded theory of adapting
… question: How do doctors-in-training engage with communication challenges in the hospital environment? Despite the increase in communication skills training in undergraduate medical curricula, complaints about communication in healthcare remain high. Understanding why undergraduate communication …
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Low-Power RF Front-End Design for Wireless Body Area Networks
… tremendous potential to benefit from wireless communication technology and are expected to make sweeping changes in the future human health care and medical fields. While the prospects for WBAN products are high, meeting required device performance with a meager amount of power consumption …
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Supporting dynamic and distributed decision making in acute care environments: Insights from a cognitive ethnography
The way that medical decisions are carried out in hospital environments has undergone radical changes in recent years, in part as a result of the changing landscape of care. To make decisions, physicians are expected to keep abreast of a growing and changing body of medical and patient knowledge, …
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Communicating Cancer: From Concepts to Care
… its core concepts, and arguing for clearer communication around cancer diagnosis and treatment, this dissertation uses philosophical tools to help tackle key challenges facing cancer medicine today.
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An adaptive physiology-aware communication framework for distributed medical cyber physical systems
For emergency medical cyber-physical systems, enhancing the safety and effectiveness of patient care, especially in remote rural areas, is essential. While the doctor to patient ratio in the United States is 30 to 10,000 in large metropolitan areas, it is only 5 to 10,000 in most rural areas; and …