There is evidence that physician explanations of conditions and processes of care are generally not well tailored to the person with poor health literacy, resulting in a lack of understanding [ 23].
A study by Swenson et al. (31) found that the presence of severe depressive symptoms in patients with type 2 diabetes predicted suboptimal clinician-patient communication across multiple domains, including clinicians' decision-making, empowerment, elicitation of patient problems, and explanation of conditions; patient communication, specifically self-care communication, was not assessed.
The causes of his alcoholism are not examined, which is just as well — explanations of a condition so elemental and encompassing risk banality.
Users were more satisfied when waiting time was shorter, prescribed medicines were available, and they received explanations of their condition.
A low cost intervention to improve user satisfaction would be to give patients explanations of their condition and treatment.
Patients cannot express informed preferences unless they are given sufficient and appropriate information, including detailed explanations of their condition and the likely outcomes with and without treatment.
Two levels of interpretation of issues under study guided by the Structuration Theory were undertaken to achieve confirmability: the caregivers' explanations of social conditions affecting their practice, and the researchers' interpretation of those conditions contributing to unintended consequences in dementia caregiving and the way to improve the conditions.
Since he is presumably unwilling to accept nonscientific explanations of human conditions when his physical or mental health is threatened, we are entitled to treat his denial that science can explain all human conditions as obscurantism or hypocrisy.
Barack Obama is getting painfully close to tying himself in knots with all his explanations of the conditions under which he would unconditionally talk with America's foes, like Iran.
Until these beliefs are challenged and focus turns to rational and scientific explanations of genetic conditions, it will take many years before albinos are truly accepted among the population.
