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28.02.2017 | Editor's Spotlight/Take 5
Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Patients With Limited Health Literacy Ask Fewer Questions During Office Visits With Hand Surgeons
verfasst von:
Seth S. Leopold, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 5/2017
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Excerpt
Shared decision-making, clinical decision-support tools, and patient-centered care can be practice-transforming, or they can be entirely unhelpful if the patient doesn’t speak the language. Sometimes the language barrier is obvious—imagine a Farsi-speaking patient who knows not a lick of English. We know what to do for that patient; a professional interpreter makes all the difference. But what if a patient speaks perfect English, but doesn’t “speak the language” of healthcare? …