医疗术语经常被急诊室患者误解
Taylor Wahrenbrock1, Kelly Landry1, Dhara P Amin2
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Cook County Health, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
The American journal of emergency medicine
|June 13, 2025
概括
在急诊室 (ED) 中使用的医学术语被患者所理解得很少,这导致了潜在的安全问题. 改善沟通对于患者遵守出院计划至关重要.
科学领域:
- 医学沟通 医学沟通
- 患者安全 患者安全
- 紧急医疗 紧急医疗
背景情况:
- 医疗保健专业人员在与急诊室 (ED) 患者沟通时经常使用医学术语.
- 尽管建议在患者讨论中避免使用术语,但这种做法仍然存在.
- 在出院期间患者对常见的ED医学术语的理解在很大程度上仍未得到审查.
研究的目的:
- 评估患者在急诊室 (ED) 退院期间理解常用的医学术语.
- 识别影响患者对医学术语理解的潜在沟通障碍.
主要方法:
- 在一个城市公共ED的123名英语成年患者中进行了一项横截面调查.
- 一个11项仪器评估了患者对常见ED术语的理解.
- 人口统计数据,沟通偏好和教育水平也被收集和分析.
主要成果:
- 患者对医学术语的理解程度较低;只有9.7%的人理解"令人印象深刻",25.2%的人理解"急性".
- "骨折" (66.7%) 和"负面" (69.1%) 等术语显示了更高的理解.
- 显著比例的患者 (5-34%) 表示"我不知道"各种术语,突出广泛的混乱.
结论:
- 患者对ED中常用的医学术语的理解很差,这对安全性和治疗遵守构成风险.
- 干预措施是必要的,以提高沟通清晰度,并确保患者理解出院说明.
- 提高患者的理解对于减少医疗错误和改善对护理计划的遵守至关重要.
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