Assessing physician-parent communication during emergency medical procedures in children: an observational study in a low-literacy Latino patient population.
Pediatr Emerg Care
; 31(5): 339-42, 2015 May.
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| ID: mdl-25875993
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Effective physician-patient communication is critical to the clinical decision-making process. We studied parental recall of information provided during an informed consent discussion process before performance of emergency medical procedures in a pediatric emergency department of an inner-city hospital with a large bilingual population.METHODS:
Fifty-five parent/child dyads undergoing emergency medical procedures were surveyed prospectively in English/Spanish postprocedure for recall of informed consent information. Exact logistic regression was used to predict the ability to name a risk, benefit, and alternative to the procedure based on a parent's language, education, and acculturation.RESULTS:
Among English-speaking parents, there tended to be higher proportions that could name a risk, benefit, or alternative. Our regression models showed overall that the parents with more than a high school education tended to have nearly 5 times higher odds of being able to name a risk.CONCLUSIONS:
A gap in communication may exist between physicians and patients (or parents of patients) during the consent-taking process, and this gap may be impacted by socio-demographic factors such as language and education level.
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Assunto principal:
Relações Médico-Paciente
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Relações Profissional-Família
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Comunicação
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Middle aged
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Newborn
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article