Questioning Medicine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3792273/Does Rewording MRI Reports Improve Patient Understanding and Emotional Response to a Clinical Report?Remember few weeks ago when I talked about 50% of people knew that broken bone and fracture were the same thing or that 1 in 5 pts couldn’t describe nonweight baring? Well this study looked o see what would happen if we changed the language in MRI reports 100pts- list of all shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand MR images ordered in 2011 was obtained from the radiology service-- The original reports were reworded to the recommended reading level for effective health education below the eighth-grade levelwords such as “tear” were replaced by more descriptive and accurate words such as hole, signal change, or defect. They also used analogies (eg, gray hair, bald spot) looked at bunch of outcomes but thing I care about was understanding—did the pt understand it and they used a 10 point scale- basically asked th pts. On 1-10 scale how did you understand that report-T