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Publication details [#60780]

Lövestam, Elin, Christina Fjellström, Afsaneh Koochek and Agneta Andersson. 2015. The power of language on patient-centredness: linguistic devices in the dietetic notes of patient records. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 25 (2) : 225–245.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

This critical discourse analysis of 30 notes in patient records, written by Swedish dietitians, shows how patients are mentioned in terms of their institutional patient role, or not at all, whilst dietitians are even less alluded to, despite health care aspiration to offer patient-focused care and a cooperative patient-clinician relation. This outcome hints at a want for more person-focused language use in dietetics.