Tag Archives: Diagnostic safety

Patient Engagement

Engaging with Older Patients for Optimal Diagnosis

by Susan Carr • February 23, 2022 • 0 Comments

In a JAMA viewpoint essay (open access), Drs. Christine Cassel and Terry Fulmer describe circumstances clinicians should consider when working with older patients, especially when diagnosing new conditions. Many of their recommendations involve specialized knowledge, such as expressions of disease that change in individuals over 65. But overall they urge clinicians to tune in, pay […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

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Effective Communication SKills

Patients’ Communication Skills Matter, Too

by Susan Carr • February 2, 2017 • 0 Comments

The patient safety movement and efforts to honor patients’ preferences emphasize the importance of skillful communication on the part of physicians and other clinicians. Less attention has been paid to the effect of patients’ communication skills. In addition to catching errors, patients can use effective communication skills to improve their health and the medical services […]