Communicating with patients' relatives - German medical language in internal intensive care medicine
- Conditions
- The study analyses only the medical language for special purpose used between experts and laypersons during doctors' visits in the internal medicine intensive care wards of the University Hospital Cologne and does not examine any diseases.
- Registration Number
- DRKS00019026
- Lead Sponsor
- niklinik Köln
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 37
Inclusion Criteria
Legal age, at least basic knowledge of German, participation in doctor's visit
Exclusion Criteria
Failure to comply with the inclusion criteria, relatives with medical expertise
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome is a) the measurement by linguistic analysis of the extent to which German medical language as language for special purposes is used in conversations between experts and laypersons during doctor's visits, and b) the measurement by questionnaire of the related degree of understanding and satisfaction of the laypersons.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcome is the analysis of the linguistic devices used in conversations between experts and laypersons during doctor's visits.