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Why don't health professionals check patient understanding? A questionnaire-based study

Holly Baker Department of Psychology, Health Psychology Section, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London,
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Rachel Crockett Department of Psychology, Health Psychology Section, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London,
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Kai Uus Audiology and Deafness Research Group, School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
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John Bamford Audiology and Deafness Research Group, School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
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Theresa Marteau Department of Psychology, Health Psychology Section, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 380-385 | Published online: 17 May 2007

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Jennifer Watermeyer, Amisha Kanji & Safiyyah Sarvan. (2017) The First Step to Early Intervention Following Diagnosis: Communication in Pediatric Hearing Aid Orientation Sessions. American Journal of Audiology 26:4, pages 576-582.
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A.M. Stiggelbout, A.H. Pieterse & J.C.J.M. De Haes. (2015) Shared decision making: Concepts, evidence, and practice. Patient Education and Counseling 98:10, pages 1172-1179.
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Katrina Brown, Elizabeth Dormandy, Erin Reid, Martin Gulliford & Theresa Marteau. (2011) Impact on Informed Choice of Offering Antenatal Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening in Primary Care: A Randomized Trial. Journal of Medical Screening 18:2, pages 65-75.
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D. Ní Chróinín, S.F. Syed Farooq, M. Burke & L. Kyne. (2011) Patient understanding of discharge diagnoses: Prevalence and predictors. European Geriatric Medicine 2:2, pages 74-78.
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Alison Harrow, Mary Wells, Gerry Humphris, Cara Taylor & Brian Williams. (2008) “Seeing is believing, and believing is seeing”: An exploration of the meaning and impact of women's mental images of their breast cancer and their potential origins. Patient Education and Counseling 73:2, pages 339-346.
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Lidewij Henneman, Theresa M. Marteau & Danielle R.M. Timmermans. (2008) Clinical geneticists’ and genetic counselors’ views on the communication of genetic risks: A qualitative study. Patient Education and Counseling 73:1, pages 42-49.
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Ananda Van den Heuvel, Amelia Hollywood, Julie Hogg, Elizabeth Dormandy, Lyn Chitty, Madhulika Kabra, Runmei Ma, Bianca Masturzo & Theresa M. Marteau. (2008) Informed choice to undergo prenatal screening for thalassemia: a description of written information given to pregnant women in Europe and beyond. Prenatal Diagnosis 28:8, pages 727-734.
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