Specific recommendations for communication and social-marketing strategies are made.
Recommendations for communication should be implemented by all ID health care workers as well as to people with ID.
Participants received a checklist of the most useful communication skills, derived from the Calgary Cambridge guide, which provides recommendations for communication during each medical encounter [ 28, 29].
Our intervention largely meets the recommendations for communication skills training in oncology as formulated at a recent consensus meeting by Stiefel et al. [ 23].
Recommendations for communication strategy could be used to raise the awareness of researchers as to how their work is apprehended by lay audiences (Box 2), especially journalists.
However, as our results stress the effect of the context of a consultation on the usefulness and applicability of recommendations for communication, we think it is important to explore facilitating and impeding characteristics of communication guidelines in the context of different health care settings.
These professionals discussed the design (e.g. manual, checklist, use of a hand-out card with tips and recommendations for communication partners) and content of the DSL protocol (e.g. the importance of raising awareness, provision of information on hearing assistive devices) and also came up with specific suggestions (e.g. referral to audiological centers, social work or peer groups).
Yet, if it finally comes to risk and crisis communication, a popular recommendation for communicators is that their activities should stay factual and avoid emotionally loaded words [ 19].
Recommendations for better communication of the meaning, benefits and limitations of building seismic standards are made.
However, several of the recommendations for improving communication at the end-of-life by the American College of Critical Care Medicine had been adopted in the unit [15].
