What is it about?
This is about communication between health care workers and patients in a large, academic hospital
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Why is it important?
Patients have a right to be fully informed of their condition and the management plan so they can be involved in their own care and make informed decisions
Perspectives
This research shows that clinicians seem to be very busy and patients do not want to disturb their treating clinicians who they respect.
Professor Indiran Govender
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
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This page is a summary of: Inpatients’ awareness of admission reasons and management plans of their clinical conditions at a tertiary hospital in South Africa, BMC Health Services Research, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-0754-y.
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