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Health

Saving lives could start at shift change: A simple way to improve hospital handoff conversations

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients they're handing over—or at least they strive to. In reality, they might not spend enough time talking about the toughest cases, ...

Nov 12, 2012

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Psychology & Psychiatry

Applying information theory to linguistics suggests 'functional design' in cross-language variations

The majority of languages—roughly 85 percent of them—can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object ("the girl kicks the ball"), and those, ...

Oct 10, 2012

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Health

Study underscores need to improve communication with moms of critically ill infants

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once described England and America as two countries separated by a common language.

Aug 16, 2012

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Study shows poor prognosis when medicos don't communicate

A new study of hospital emergency rooms has shown how communication breakdowns between patients and medical staff can lead to problems in treatment delivery and potentially reduced patient safety.

Aug 10, 2011

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