Individual pocket-sized, laminated cards displaying the EWS, the SBAR (situation, background, assessment and recommendation) communication protocol and the MET beeper number were handed out to the ward nurses and doctors.
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.
The decision for trial participation is also influenced by parental factors (parents' knowledge, beliefs, and emotional responses), child factors (the child's health status and preference about participation), trial factors (the use of placebos and uncertainties of participation), and doctor factors (doctor's recommendations and communication of trial information).
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.
We identified 19 context factors that could potentially explain the deviation from generic recommendations on communication skills.
In a previous explorative study, several context factors (CF) were identified on the level of the consultation that may well explain deviations from generic recommendations on communication [ 25].
A decade later, ILSI North America revisited the subject by convening the "Decision-Making for Recommendations and Communication Based on Totality of Food-Related Research" workshop in December 2008, in Washington DC.
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.
