ICU: Ineffective communication unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3116-3117

  Young, G Bryan ^a,b   Plotkin, Donna R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Comprehension; Intensive care; Relatives

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; FAMILY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033847926     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200008000-00091     Document Type: Editorial

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5. Physician virtues and communicating with patients
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10. Promoting effective communication in the NICU by audiotaping doctor-patient conversations
11. The take-home message: Patients prefer consulting audiotapes to summary tellers