A review of the literature addressing the efficacy of breast cancer risk communication showed that, of several modalities used to communicate risk, no single modality was the most efficacious [ 6].
In the needs analysis component of the survey, all EPs (n = 25) indicated that LBs hindered communication with non-English-speaking patients, most (23/25) felt that overcoming the Portuguese LB in particular would enhance care efforts, and few (3/25) were satisfied with current modalities available to communicate with non-English-speaking patients.
Respondents, including members of the MCs and VSCs, reported that many members of the community had a limited understanding of the project despite efforts to communicate its goals and modalities.
All participants were aged over 18 years, able to give their own informed consent, had severe communication disabilities arising from lifelong physical disabilities, unable to rely on natural speech to communicate and communicated using multiple modalities of AAC, able to access a computer and internet independently.
We recommend educational intervention to narrow the gap between acceptance and knowledge so that physicians would be adequately equipped to communicate with their patients on this modality.
In this paper we review issues related to virtual teams and developments in multimodal displays that allow teams to communicate effectively via single or multiple modalities (e.g., visual, auditory, tactile).
We propose that there be an integration of herbal medicine into the current medical curriculum so that future physicians would be better able to communicate with their patients on this healthcare modality.
Furthermore, the standard DICOM objects and classes for nuclear medicine (NM, PT) and computed tomography (CT) are used to communicate the actual image data created by the modalities.
It provides individuals with a way to communicate and share information at any time, at any location, via multiple modalities (e.g. voice, text, messaging).
