Face-to-face semi-structured interviews after each consultation explored parents' experiences of communication, consultations, relationships with staff, and the impact of the illness and treatment on themselves and their child.
To ensure exploration of core topics, interviewers used a topic guide with prompts about parents' experiences of: communication, consultations including the audiorecorded ones, relationships with staff, and the impact of the illness and treatment on their child (see outline summary in Additional File 1).
Are communication, consultation and trust relationships built with the same colleagues, or not?
This means that size (Table 4) and reach efficiency (Table 5) differ between teams, whether it concerns communication, consultation or trust networks.
For example, Rowe and Frewer [ 41] have produced a typology of engagement mechanisms in relation to the functions of public communication, consultation and participation.
The most common linkages in studies with a positive effect were care management, enhanced communication, consultation liaison and local protocols (see table 2).
In school contexts, health and rehabilitation practitioners are frequently drawn into particular special education processes through written communication, consultation, and other forms of interaction [ 2, 4, 10, 60 62].
Incorporating their views and listening to their opinions throughout the whole of the re-design process provided a two-way channel of communication: consultation and education became simply two aspects of the same enterprise.
In interpreting the results, one must, however, realize that any effect of different formats for risk communication on people's perception and decision-making is bound to be small, in particular since this study involved a standard counseling session before the risk communication consultation (intervention) where the risks already had been discussed.
The authors have been involved in all manner of risk communication, consultation and risk assessment projects in the energy sector in Canada and it has been our experience that this heightened sense of annoyance, agitation or fear is not unique to the wind turbine sector.
(post-consultation interview, age 64, right hip, listed for TJR by Surgeon A) An important aspect of communication in consultations and decision-making was the use of non-verbal cues.
