Structure of medical explanation: a semantic model

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> There is a body of evidence revealing that poor outcomes, complaints and malpractice litigation are due, in part, to poor communication and absence of satisfactory explanation. We view explanation as a linguistic structure that should promote understanding but there is no agreement on what such a structure should be. We propose a semantic model for thinking about explanation to patien...

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eb7ec570-0a61-5548-affd-7a55ce49ecc4

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-8595641/v1