A classification of errors in lay comprehension of medical documents.

ABSTRACT: Emphasis on participatory medicine requires that patients and consumers participate in tasks traditionally reserved for healthcare providers. This includes reading and comprehending medical documents, often but not necessarily in the context of interacting with Personal Health Records (PHRs). Research suggests that while giving patients access to medical documents has many benefits (e.g., improved patient-provider communication), lay people often have difficulty understanding medical information. Informatics can address the problem by developing tools that support comprehension; this requires in-depth understanding of the nature and causes of errors that lay people make when comprehending clinical documents. The objective of this study was to develop a classification scheme of comprehensio

SUBMITTER: Keselman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3504163 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature