The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently launched a new initiative with the Ad Council to encourage clinicians and patients to engage in effective two-way communication to ensure safer care and better health outcomes.
As a mother, this is obviously a very important issue to me as a mother who constantly monitors the health of my children, and of course, make a few trips to the doctor every year (sometimes even more!).
Check out their site with other valuable tips and tools available here: http://www.ahrq.gov/questions. The site and message truly delves into the importance of very open communication between clinicians and their patients.
As a mom myself, I found it interesting to listen to Laurri Diener, mother of 3 children, talk about how better communication with her doctor helped her to get the right diagnosis and treatment so that she could sleep more and worry less. Further, the full series of new public service videos featuring real clinicians and patients can be found, here (with embeddable links found at the AHRQHealthTV YouTube page).
Next time you make a trip to the doctor, whether for you or your little one, remember to ask questions and create that dialogue, which so important.
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