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01-08-2017 | Editor's Spotlight/Take 5

Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Readability of Orthopaedic Patient-reported Outcome Measures: Is There a Fundamental Failure to Communicate?

Author: M. Daniel Wongworawat, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 8/2017

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When the purpose of treatment is to help the patient by reducing symptoms and improve quality of life, there are some questions that only the patient can answer. As we seek each patient’s answers, it turns out that the way we ask our questions may be as important as the questions themselves. How good are we at asking our patients these questions? Do our patients even understand them? …

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Title: Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Readability of Orthopaedic Patient-reported Outcome Measures: Is There a Fundamental Failure to Communicate?
Author: M. Daniel Wongworawat, MD
Publication date: 01-08-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 8/2017
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-017-5383-9

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