Forty physicians, 40 student nurses, and 40 hospital patiemts were surveyed regarding their
usage and evaluations of medical and everyday language use in the hospital setting …

In increasingly multilingual healthcare environments worldwide, ensuring accurate, effective
communication is requisite. Language proficiency is essential, particularly medical language …

Background Miscommunication in the healthcare sector can be life-threatening. The rising
number of migrant patients and foreign-trained staff means that communication errors …

The communication of information in clinical settings is fraught with problems despite
avowed common aims of practitioners and patients. Some reasons for the problematic …

Objective To conduct a scoping literature review to understand the conceptualization and
nature of the research on patient–provider language concordance (LC) in health care …

Aims and objectives This paper examines the communication strategies that nurses, doctors,
pharmacists and patients use when managing medications. Background Patient‐centred …

Aim. This paper reports on the second phase of a national study in Wales. The research
aimed to assess the level of Welsh language awareness amongst healthcare professionals …

At the start of studies on health communication, scholars were primarily concerned with
showing the ethical implications of a new approach to care and with collecting evidence to …

Two studies investigated interactions between health providers and patients, using Semin
and Fiedler's linguistic category model. In Study 1 the linguistic category model was used to …

There is a large body of literature on communication in medical settings and this chapter
distinguishes two partially overlapping categories. The first is literature of particular …