Abstract
Communication between medical professions-interprofessional communication - is required for the complex care provided by most hospitals and healthcare organizations. Few, if any, individual providers can care for patients in the 21st century without some form of collaboration and assistance from other healthcare professions. Communication across professions is not easy, and there are barriers to simple and effective communication between different medical professionals. For example, physicians have their own specialties (family medicine, cardiology, surgery, radiology, etc.), as do nurses (operating room, hospital À oor, medical records), and these specialties create the need for specialized vocabularies and different clinical functions. Healthcare itself has a traditional medical hierarchy that presents a number of problems to effective interprofessional communication. In addition, there are a number of other medical professions beyond nurses and doctors, such as therapists, technicians, and specialists, that add to the complexity of interprofessional communication.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Health Communication |
| Subtitle of host publication | Theory, Method, and Application |
| Pages | 147-178 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781134063635 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2014 |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences
- General Medicine