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Up Close - Women's Health - September 27, 2012
Study finds communication gap between docs, moms
Even if both parties feel good about conversation, misunderstandings exist

Newswise

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once described England and America as two countries separated by a common language.

Now research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, in Baltimore, suggests that common language also might be the divide standing between mothers of critically ill newborns and the clinicians who care for them.

The study, published Aug. 16 in the Journal of Perinatology, found that miscommunication was common, and that the most serious breakdow...


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