Of these adults, many lack the minimum skills necessary for comprehending patient education materials, informed consent forms, medication labels, and other health care-related materials [ 6].
These results confirmed the findings of Baker (2001) who reported that lack of time and heavy workload negatively affected decision-making, because nurses cannot comprehend patients' requirements [ 15].
It has been argued that the term phenomenology has become corrupted in clinical psychiatry: current usage, as a set of supposedly objective descriptions of a psychiatric patient (a synonym for signs and symptoms), is incompatible with the original meaning which was concerned with comprehending a patient's subjective experience.
This study also raises important clinical questions and highlights the importance of fully understanding how signaling networks function to fully comprehend how patients may respond to targeted drugs.
Furthermore item review verified that all Dutch items are comprehended by patients as they were intended although some minor general problems in the response process persist that are most likely to be prevalent in the original version of the item bank as well.
As a consequence of these findings we started to look as a whole to the child and the adolescent with the disorder, serving to comprehend these patients not only as one limitation, but rather broad issues that should have appropriated intervention.
Imagine now that in some other Platonic universe, each person has a perfect psychoanalyst waiting out there, one who listens and comprehends the patient completely.
The inability of a proxy to fully comprehend the patient's view and the resulting difference between proxy-report and self-report, the so-called inter-rater gap, is often argued in literature (e.g., lack of validity) [6, 14, 15].
For few of us patients comprehend the biochemistry of cancer treatments.
Nineteen (n = 19) of the 26 statements were comprehended by all patients completing the pilot testing.
